Some massive stars may go out with a fizzle, not a bang. A star that winked out of view could be a “failed supernova,” a stellar explosion that petered out instead of fully detonating, a new study ...

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Scientists put sticky traps on car bumpers to tally how many bees get hit on a typical trip Tens of millions of bees are likely being killed each day by vehicles — and that’s just in the western ...

Stand back, ordinary ocean-dwelling, oxygen-spewing organisms: There’s a new green, hulkish mutant in town. And hefty UTEX 3222 — dubbed “Chonkus” by the researchers who found it — may have just the ...

In the ocean’s abyss, deep-diving whales use echolocation to hunt in pitch dark. Emitting sounds that bounce off objects gives the whales a clear picture of their surroundings. “More often than any ...