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How Do Sharks and Rays Use Electricity to Find Hidden Prey?
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When it comes to spotting prey, sharks and rays have a sense beyond sight and smell.
Can A Thousand Tiny Swarming Robots Outsmart Nature?
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How does a group of animals - or cells - work together when no one's in charge?
What Happens When You Zap Coral With The World's Most Powerful X-ray Laser?
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Some corals look like undersea gardens, gently blowing in the breeze.
These 'Resurrection Plants' Spring Back to Life in Seconds
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Within seconds of rainfall, dried-up moss is revived after being dead for decades.
Where Are the Ants Carrying All Those Leaves?
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Ants use leaves to grow white tufts of nutritious fungus to feed their offspring.
What Happens When You Put a Hummingbird in a Wind Tunnel?
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Scientists have used a high-speed camera to film hummingbirds' aerial acrobatics.
Newt Sex: Buff Males! Writhing Females! Cannibalism!
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Every winter, California newts leave the safety of their forest burrows.
From Drifter to Dynamo: The Story of Plankton
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Most plankton are tiny drifters, wandering in a vast ocean.
Banana Slugs: Secret of the Slime
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Beneath the towering redwoods lives one of the most peculiar creatures in California.
In the Race for Life, Which Human Embryos Make It?
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Every one of us started out as an embryo.
How Electric Light Changed the Night
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Artificial light makes the modern world possible.
The Fantastic Fur of Sea Otters
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Sea otters aren't just cute -- they're a vivid example of life on the edge.
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