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Nightingale: Rivals with tuning fork effect

Researchers have listened analytically to the legendary virtuosos of the bird world. © Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence / Magdalena Warner ...

145 million year old pterosaur from Bavaria

145 million year old fossil of the new pterosaur species Petrodactyle wellnhoferi. © René Lauer Pterosaurs were the first vertebrates to conquer the airspace, at...

Faintest galaxy in the early cosmos

Galaxy JD1 (detail) and the galaxy cluster Abell 2744, which acts as a gravitational lens. © Guido Roberts-Borsani/UCLA); Original images: NASA, ESA, CSA,...

Photo worth seeing: alien rivers

On Earth, many rivers branch into multiple branches at their mouths, forming a fan-shaped river delta—quite unlike the rivers of Titan. Liquid methane flows...

Some lakes more polluted than the oceans

Microplastic particles are smaller than five millimeters. © pcess609/ iStock Some of the world's oceans are so polluted with plastic waste that huge garbage patches...

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