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Scientists created the whitest paint ever
By Yasemin Saplakoglu published
Engineers have created the whitest paint ever, and they think it can help fight a warming planet.
Octopuses can 'see' light with their arms
By Cameron Duke published
Octopuses can "see" light with their arms, even when their eyes are in the dark, researchers have found.
Platypuses glow an eerie blue-green under UV light
By Mindy Weisberger published
Scientists have discovered that platypus fur glows under ultraviolet light, in the first example of biofluorescence in egg-laying mammals.
Meet the zeptosecond, the shortest unit of time ever measured
By Stephanie Pappas published
Scientists have measured the shortest unit of time ever, the time it takes for a particle of light to cross a hydrogen molecule.
Black hole bends escaping light 'like a boomerang'
By Mindy Weisberger published
Light behaves even more strangely than expected around the irresistible pull of a black hole.
So Much of the Arctic Is on Fire, You Can See It From Space
By Laura Geggel published
Wildfires burning large swaths of Russia are generating so much smoke, they're visible from space, new images from NASA's Earth Observatory reveal.
What Is Relativity?
By Michael Schirber published
Albert Einstein was famous for many things, but his greatest brainchild is the theory of relativity. It forever changed our understanding of space and time.
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