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How Do Porcupine Quills Work?

Meet Guillermo, a prehensile-tailed porcupine from South America! His tail functions like an extra limb, helping him grip branches as he climbs.
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Can Young Blood Reverse Aging?

Can young blood reverse aging? In a recent breakthrough, researchers combined plasma serum and bone marrow from young donors to treat aging human skin cells in the lab.
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Could You Reprogram Life’s Genetic Code?

Could scientists make artificial life using simpler DNA language? Life typically uses 64 of these codons to build proteins, but scientists wanted to see if bacteria could do with fewer.
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Hybrid Animals Are On the Rise: Here’s Why

Warming temperatures aren’t just melting ice, they’re merging ecosystems. As habitats shift, species that evolved thousands to millions of years apart are coming into contact again, creating wild hybrid offspring like the “pizzly bear” and the newly...
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Do Mummies Smell Like Baking Bread? 🍞

Nobel Prize–winning scientist Svante Pääbo shares that the scent comes from the Maillard reaction.
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How Beavers Build Entire Ecosystems

Beavers don’t just build dams, they build entire ecosystems. The Nature Educator shows how these incredible engineers transform entire landscapes by creating wetlands.
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Why Blue Jays Aren’t Really Blue

Blue jays are not truly blue, they just look that way. Most colors in nature come from pigments that absorb and reflect light, but a blue jay creates its color through structural tricks.
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Your Brain Invents Color You Don’t See

Would you be surprised to learn the strawberries in this picture aren’t actually red? A pixel-by-pixel color analysis reveals no red at all, yet your brain still sees it.
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Remembering Dr. Jane Goodall

Dr. Jane Goodall was more than just an ethologist. She was a changemaker.
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Sea Cucumber x Pearl Fish = Reef’s Strangest Bond!

Why does the pearl fish live in a sea cucumber’s butt? Marine scientist Jane Adcroft from the Great Barrier Reef Foundation explains that the pearl fish hides inside the sea cucumber’s butt.
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How Shipwrecks Become Reefs

What happens after a ship sinks? EV Nautilus dived deep below the surface of the South Pacific Ocean to study shipwrecks.
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Immune to Every Virus? Science Says It’s Possible

What if you were immune to all viruses? A small number of people carry a rare genetic mutation that causes their bodies to produce interferons, virus-blocking proteins, all the time, keeping them immune without activating the rest of the immune system.
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Feather Under a Microscope Will Blow Your Mind

Feathers: ancient, engineered, and way more than just for flight. Our friend Chloé Savard, also known as tardibabe on Instagram headed to Bonaventure Island and Percé Rock National Park and a feather from a Northern Gannet (Morus Bassanus) which sparked a...
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What Does It Means to Be Human? Gronk, Jazzy & Beatie Wolfe Explain

What does it mean to be human? 💭@TheGronks, @JazzysWorldTV, and @BeatieWolfe share personal reflections on this question, highlighting strength, emotion, and growth. It’s a reminder that science isn’t just about data; it’s also about understanding...
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Glass Squids Change Color Underwater

In the ocean’s twilight zone, glass squids like this one spotted by EV Nautilus, rely on transparency to avoid predators, but when that fails, they activate backup camouflage.