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No Bull: Scientists Potty Train Cows to Use ‘MooLoo’

Turns out cows can be potty trained as easily as toddlers. Maybe easier.

New Theory: Earth’s Longer Days Kick-Started Oxygen Growth

Scientists have a new idea for how Earth got its oxygen: It’s because the planet...

Bug Experts Seeking New Name for Destructive Gypsy Moths

The Entomological Society of America, which oversees the common names of bugs, is getting rid...

Can ET See Us? Study Finds Many Stars with Prime Earth View

Feeling like you are being watched? It could be from a lot farther away than...

Weird ‘Living Fossil’ Fish Lives 100 Years, Pregnant for 5

These nocturnal fish grow at an achingly slow pace.

Will Jupiter and Saturn Align To Make ‘Christmas Star’ in 2020?

A Christian website reported that the two planets would "align into a beautiful bright star."

What Does the Effect of a Bullet Fired From an AR-15 Look Like?

Photographs shared widely on social media offer an incomplete explanation of the kinds of damage...

Can This Stone Dissolve Iron?

A viral video claims to document a mysterious and unexplained phenomenon, but in reality it...

Idaho Teacher Investigated for Alleged Animal Mistreatment During Class

A junior high instructor was accused of feeding a puppy to a snapping turtle in...

Did Immigrants Dominate the U.S. Nobel Prize Tally in 2016 and 2017?

Foreign-born, U.S.-based scientists and economists won a remarkable number of Nobel prizes in the last...

Ten Things Science Did Not Say in 2017

Science denialism, clickbait headlines, and absurd pseudoscience: Our favorite science debunkings from 2017.

The Remarkable Sabrina Pasterski

A viral meme about a Harvard University graduate student gets most (but not all) of...