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• The remarkable bond between a man and a deer

  18-10-2026 21:00 via popsci.com
  
  Excerpted from PENELOPE by Paul Bochner. Copyright © 2026 by Paul Bochner. Published in the United States by Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. On the evening of March 18, as it was growing dark, I went to the window, not knowing what was drawing me. Next to the house stood a shadow, ghost-like, shrunken, at one with the dusk, almost translucent, and I recognized The Girl with the Broken Foot.I walked out into the falling wet snow,
  
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• Wash your hands. There’s probably poop on them.

  18-10-2026 19:09 via popsci.com
  
  You would think, post-COVID, that we would all understand the importance of frequent and thorough handwashing. And yet, spend any time in a public restroom and you’ll see an alarming number of people who still see it as optional. We know it can help curb the spread of illness when you’re sick, but on an average day, just how gross is it to not wash your hands? “Your hands have a microbial flora that is always present. These are mostly good bacteria that help protect y
  
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• New water lily can be seen from space

  18-10-2026 17:12 via popsci.com
  
  One cold December day in 2021, Colorado carnivorous plant grower Jeremiah Harris shared some pictures of wild Amazonian giant water lilies (Victoria amazonica) plants in the Inírida River in Guainía, Colombia to Instagram. There’s just one problem. No known Victoria water lily species grow there. When water lily expert Carlos Magdalena saw the post on Instagram, he suspected a new plant species could be involved. To investigate the matter, he used satellite imagery to re
  
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• Defending the Right to Choose Death

  18-10-2026 15:00 via nytimes.com
  Readers respond to an Opinion guest essay about medical assistance in dying. Also: An assault on federal science.
  
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• Real-life vampire birds hunt and drink blood in remote Ecuador

  18-10-2026 14:04 via popsci.com
  
  When zoology professor Daniel Baldassarre traveled to the remote Galápagos Islands of Wolf and Darwin with two other researchers, getting there proved quite a challenge. With no beaches to land a boat on, they had to approach the islands’ cliffs in a small dinghy and wait for a lull in the waves before jumping onto sharp, black lava rocks.But their efforts paid off. On that trip, they saw a bird that very few people have ever set eyes on in the wild: the vampire ground finch. These
  
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• Scientists Examine 5,000-Year-Old Skulls and Uncover a Disturbing Secret of Egypt’s First Kings

  18-10-2026 04:23 via scitechdaily.com
  Serving Egypt’s earliest kings may have carried a deadly cost, and overlooked skull injuries are giving a century-old suspicion new weight. Some of Egypt’s earliest royal tombs at Abydos are surrounded by hundreds of smaller graves. When Flinders Petrie excavated the site in the 1920s, he suspected that so many people could not have died [...]
  
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• The Surprising Reason Some Children Struggle With Math, According to Science

  18-10-2026 03:48 via scitechdaily.com
  Language and reasoning skills help predict math performance, offering clues to the learning difficulties that a test score alone may miss. Why do some students grasp mathematical concepts with ease while others struggle, even after repeated instruction? The answer may lie in abilities that extend far beyond working with numbers. Mathematics requires students to recognize [...]
  
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• Scientists Discover a 99-Million-Year-Old Insect With a Bizarre Feature Never Seen in Living Species

  18-10-2026 03:13 via scitechdaily.com
  Like a bendy straw, an ancient insect’s folded mouthparts may have flexed without collapsing, revealing a feeding adaptation unknown in living planthoppers. About 99 million years ago, a tiny insect became trapped in tree resin with mouthparts nearly twice the length of its body. The resin hardened into amber, preserving an unusual feeding organ that [...]
  
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