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Animals

The first known scorpion to live with ants carries mini hitchhikers

Small arachnids hitch a ride on the scorpion, possibly to get inside food-rich ant nests.

Health & Medicine

A 25-year-effort uncovers clues to unexplained deaths in children

When Laura Gould’s daughter died in 1997, there was almost no research in unexpected deaths in children older than one. Gould helped change that.

Plants

Here’s why blueberries are blue

Nanostructures in a blueberry’s waxy coating make it look blue, despite having dark red pigments — and no blue ones — in its skin, a new study reports.

Planetary Science

Saturn’s ‘Death Star’ moon might contain a hidden ocean

A fresh look at Cassini data reveals slight changes in the tiny moon’s orbit that suggest the presence of a vast ocean beneath the satellite’s icy shell.