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Mimicry is widespread in the animal kingdom. Some caterpillars can make themselves look like venomous snakes. The chicks of an Amazonian bird called the cinereous mourner shapeshift into poisonous larvae. Flower-loving hoverflies evolved to look just like stinging, unpalatable wasps. These are all examples of Batesian mimicry, an evolutionary trick which leads a relatively harmless …

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When Russia feels its armed forces into Ukraine amidst accusations of Nazism and NATO aggression, it left most of its credibility behind. What’s left of its credibility is in shreds as Russia lurches towards pariah status. That’s what happens when you unleash your military on your peaceful neighbor and when the body count grows alongside …

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This spectrogram shows the largest quake ever detected on another planet. Estimated at magnitude 5, this quake was discovered by NASA’s InSight lander on May 4, 2022, the 1,222nd Martian day, or sol, of the mission. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ETH Zurich NASA’s InSight Mars lander has detected the largest quake ever observed on another planet: an estimated …

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The GOES-17 satellite captured images of an umbrella cloud generated by the underwater eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano on January 15, 2022. Crescent-shaped bow shock waves and numerous lighting strikes are also visible. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens using GOES imagery courtesy of NOAA and NESDIS When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga …

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David Attenborough examines fossilized dinosaur leg The Chicxulub crater sits on the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, and is one of the world’s largest confirmed impact structures. It is believed to be the site where a giant asteroid fell and wiped out the dinosaurs. Researchers have generally agreed that the impactor—the asteroid—was around 10 kilometers (6.2 …

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An artist illustration of the InSight lander on Mars. InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is designed to give the Red Planet its first thorough checkup since it formed 4.5 billion years ago. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Estimated to be magnitude 5, the quake is the strongest ever detected on another …

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Ingenuity appears to be in recovery from a communications glitch on Mars. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) reestablished contact with the miniature Mars chopper Thursday (May 5) after it missed a scheduled call-in about two days before, the agency reported Friday (May 6). Engineers suggest that the helicopter may have entered a low power state …

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