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Poisonous Plants

It’s Cute, but This Cat Probably Wasn’t Feeding Its Toy Kittens

Parasitic Vines That Feed on Parasitic Wasps That Feed on Trees

NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Takes First Picture of Distant Rock It Will Visit

Algae Bloom in Lake Superior Raises Worries on Climate Change and Tourism

She Helped Crack the Golden State Killer Case. Here’s What She’s Going to Do Next.

Before These Parasitic Wasps Finished Devouring Live Flies, They Became Fossils

What Ducks Hear Underwater

What Do Ducks Hear? And Why Do We Care?

These Cultural Treasures Are Made of Plastic. Now They’re Falling Apart.

How a Plant Ages

The DNA of Extinct Cave Bears Lives On

A New Trick to Keep Barnacles From Sticking to Ships

Did Juul Lure Teenagers and Get ‘Customers for Life’?

Should I Flush It? Most Often, the Answer Is No

When a Pregnant Pipefish Dad Spots an Alluring Female, Things Get Weird

The Mysterious Green Orbs That Float by Day and Sink at Night

Giraffe Parts Sales Are Booming in the U.S., and It’s Legal

A Blended Family: Her Mother Was Neanderthal, Her Father Something Else Entirely

Ice on the Surface of the Moon? Almost Certainly, New Research Shows

Honeybees Are Hurting. What Else Can Pollinate Our Food?

Ancient Burial Pits Reveal Sophisticated Rituals

Your Spit Might Help You Learn to Eat Your Greens

Before You Flush Your Contact Lenses, You Might Want to Know This

Companions for City Trees

Crows Are Taught to Pick Up Trash at French Theme Park

Hundreds of Reindeer Died by Lightning. Their Carcasses Became a Laboratory.

Archaeologists Find 3,200-Year-Old Cheese in an Egyptian Tomb

How Ants Avoid Traffic Jams

Settling Arguments About Hydrogen With 168 Giant Lasers

The Secret to Ant Efficiency Is Idleness

Trapped in 99-Million-Year-Old Amber, a Beetle With Pilfered Pollen

Paternity Tests at the Penguin House

The ‘Zombie Gene’ That May Protect Elephants From Cancer

Fierce and Unpredictable: How Wildfires Became Infernos

NASA to Make Second Parker Solar Probe Launch Attempt

Congressman Collins’s Deep Financial Ties to Biotech Firms Posed Other Conflicts

Watch NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Launch

Maria Konnikova Shows Her Cards

Touching the Sun

Today the Parker Solar Probe Is Named for Him. 60 Years Ago, No One Believed His Ideas About the Sun.

Fossils on an Australian Beach Reveal a Shark-Eat-Shark World

Friendly Foxes’ Genes Offer Hints to How Dogs Became Domesticated

Marine Mammals Have Lost a Gene That Now They May Desperately Need

Give a Cow a Brush, and Watch It Scratch That Itch

Something Digs Intricate Tunnels in Garnets. Is It Alive?

Alabama Beachgoers May Have Killed Hundreds of Protected Birds, Experts Say

Welcome to the World, Little Fish. In 14 Days You’ll Start Making Babies.

Designing the Death of a Plastic