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- Animals
How a dolphin eats an octopus without dying
An octopus’s tentacles can kill a dolphin — or a human — when eaten alive. But wily dolphins in Australia have figured out how to do this safely.
- Health & Medicine
Faux womb keeps preemie lambs alive
A device can keep premature lambs alive for a month in womblike conditions.
- Humans
Homo naledi’s brain shows humanlike features
South African Homo species had small but humanlike brain, scientists say.
- Archaeology
Oldest evidence of patterned silk loom found in China
Chinese finds offer earliest look at game-changing weaving machine.
- Animals
Beetles have been mooching off insect colonies for millions of years
The behavior, called social parasitism, has been going on for about 100 million years.
- Astronomy
No long, twisted tail trails the solar system
The bubble that envelops the planets and other material in the solar system does not have a tail, new observations show.
- Physics
Gamma-ray evidence for dark matter weakens
Excess gamma rays are still unexplained, but they might not come from dark matter.
- Science & Society
We went to the March for Science in D.C. Here’s what happened
Science News staff members reported live updates from the March for Science in Washington, D.C., on April 22.
- Science & Society
Watch the March for Science in Washington, D.C.
Watch the live stream of the March for Science in Washington, D.C. on April 22.
- Anthropology
Ötzi the Iceman froze to death
Copper Age Iceman froze to death, with shoulder and head damage.
- Science & Society
Top 10 science anniversaries of 2017
2017 offers an abundance of scientific anniversaries to celebrate, from pulsars and pulsar planets to Einstein’s laser, Einstein’s cosmos and the laws of robotics.
- Planetary Science
In ‘grand finale,’ Cassini spacecraft sets off on collision course with Saturn
The Cassini spacecraft will plunge into Saturn’s atmosphere and disintegrate on Sept. 15, but is slated to do some solid science before its demise.
