A flower’s ability to mimic the sexually attractive traits of pollinators to lure them to its nectar has long fascinated scientists. Flowers can’t buy glasses and a wig to create a disguise, so how...
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An Obscured Face Behind COVID-19 May Finally Be Emerging : ScienceAlert
Once more, we’re talking about the origins of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. First the US Department of Energy’s review gave more emphasis to the laboratory leak hypothesis than previously, although the confidence...
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Strange Acceleration of Mysterious Interstellar Visitor Finally Explained : ScienceAlert
An interstellar object that is currently on its long journey back out of our Solar System has a completely natural explanation, in spite of its odd quirks. The peculiar acceleration of ‘Oumuamua, new research...
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Scientists Finally Detect Neutrinos in Particle Collider : ScienceAlert
The ghost, at long last, is actually in the machine: For the first time, scientists have created neutrinos in a particle collider. Those abundant yet enigmatic subatomic particles are so removed from the rest...
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The Mystery of The Ghost Catfish’s Shimmering Rainbow Can Finally Be Explained : ScienceAlert
The secret behind the ghost catfish’s iridescent twinkle has been uncovered by a team of scientists. Kryptopterus vitreolus casts ethereal, flickering rainbows along its flanks when it shimmies through water. This eye-catching sheen within...
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The ‘Rapunzel’ Virus Has a Freakishly Long Tail, And We Finally Know Why : ScienceAlert
For billions of years, viruses and bacteria have been locked in a never-ending arm’s race, and it has caused one predator to evolve “a monster of a tail”. The unique bacteria-devouring virus, or bacteriophage,...
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‘Time Reflections’ Finally Observed by Physicists After Decades of Searching : ScienceAlert
Walk through a maze of mirrors, you’ll soon come face to face with yourself. Your nose meets your nose, your fingertips touch at their phantom twins, stopped abruptly by a boundary of glass. Most...
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Scientists Finally Solve Mystery of Why Solar Probes Keep Fogging Up : ScienceAlert
Space probes designed to study the Sun are the last places you’d expect to have a moisture problem. Yet a recent investigation has found aluminum filters on two different satellites are degrading as water...
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Salt Deserts Are Covered in Strange, Repeating Patterns. We’ve Finally Figured Out Why : ScienceAlert
The spectacular, hexagonal shapes texturing salt deserts such as the Badwater Basin in Death Valley, California, and Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia have long mystified travelers and scientists alike. Considered by some to be...
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The Secret to The Naked Mole-Rat’s Unique Fertility Has Finally Been Revealed : ScienceAlert
Who would’ve thought a wrinkled-up, nearly blind sac of a mammal would be such a guru on ways to stay forever young? That pink and flabby-skinned rodent we fondly call the naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus...
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