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2019 Audubon Photography Awards
Amateurs and professionals turn their lenses to our feathered friends with stunning results.
Baby birds communicate with each other before they even hatch
July 23, 2019, 1:36 p.m. by Christian Cotroneo
When faced with danger, embryos warn each other from inside their egg.
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What happens to your body when you cry?
July 23, 2019, 12:44 p.m. by Mary Jo DiLonardo
Tears serve many purposes from easing stress to getting attention.
Live cam offers rare peek at snowy owl nest
July 23, 2019, 11:52 a.m. by Ben Bolton
Owl Research Institute and explore.org team up so we can all learn.
Why Dutch parents drop their kids in the woods
July 23, 2019, 8:24 a.m. by Mary Jo DiLonardo
It's one way to teach independence.
New York bans cat declawing
July 23, 2019, 7:51 a.m. by Mary Jo DiLonardo
More cities and states are taking steps to ban the procedure, but not everyone agrees it's the right solution.
When it comes to aging in place, self-driving cars won't save us
July 22, 2019, 4:16 p.m. by Lloyd Alter
A new study finds that older people react a lot more slowly when they take the wheel.
Newly discovered shark puts on a light show to lure in its next meal
July 22, 2019, 1:36 p.m. by Christian Cotroneo
Only 2 American pocket sharks have ever been found.
Cigarette butts are the most pervasive man-made pollutant
July 22, 2019, 12:18 p.m. by Noel Kirkpatrick
These plastic filters far surpass plastic straws in coastal cleanup tallies.
The controversy behind the world's next great telescope
July 22, 2019, 9:45 a.m. by Robynne Boyd
Thirty Meter Telescope will be built in a culturally and ecologically sensitive area of Hawaii.
Bugs experience chronic pain, too
July 22, 2019, 8:25 a.m. by Christian Cotroneo
And they could teach us how to control it in our own lives.
California condor births mark a milestone — and we have pictures to prove it
July 21, 2019, 9:29 a.m. by Christian Cotroneo
It took months of sleuthing and cliff-scaling to confirm.
Why the Apollo 11 anniversary still matters
July 20, 2019, 8:49 a.m. by Michael d'Estries
50 years after man first walked on the moon, the ripples of that accomplishment continue to inspire innovation.
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