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  • With speeds of 100 miles per hour, it leaves birds like swifts and albatrosses eating its dust.

    With speeds of 100 miles per hour, it leaves birds like swifts and albatrosses eating its dust.

    You can forget your swifts, your peregrine falcons, and your grey-headed albatrosses. They may be fast, but when it comes to level flight, it’s not a bird, but a mammal that holds the record. 

    Brazilian free-tailed bats (Tadarida…

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  • Jupiter’s clouds are hiding something big

    Jupiter’s clouds are hiding something big

    Towering clouds ripple across Jupiter’s surface in dramatic patterns. Like Earth’s clouds, they contain water, but on Jupiter they are far denser and far deeper. These layers are so thick that no spacecraft has been able to directly observe what…

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  • Weak magnetism causes big changes in a strange state of matter

    Weak magnetism causes big changes in a strange state of matter

    Picture a glowing cloud that looks like a neon sign, but instead of water droplets it holds vast numbers of microscopic dust particles suspended in space. This unusual mixture is known as dusty plasma, a rare state of matter that exists both in…

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  • Late Jurassic predators likely fed often on baby dinosaurs

    Late Jurassic predators likely fed often on baby dinosaurs

    The Morrison Formation is a notable rock layer from the Upper Jurassic period, recognized for its variety of land animals. Despite over a hundred years of research, we still don’t fully understand how these organisms interact with each…

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