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Small ants clean larger ants, a researcher has discovered. It’s the first known case of interspecies grooming between ants.

New citizen science project Space Warps lets you study new Euclid space telescope data to find galaxies bending the fabric of the universe.

Earth Oddities • Strange Weather Phenomena • Desert Ecosystems • Go back to Strange Sounds Death Valley is experiencing a rare superbloom, a spectacular desert event in which vast numbers of wildflowers suddenly bloom across the valley floor after rare rainfall. This is the best flowering desert phenomenon in the driest place in North America […]

Stardust in Antarctica reveals the presence of an element that is not naturally made on Earth. But it is created in supernovas. Read more about the evidence.

AI-powered robots are helping researchers locate and remove waste from Europe’s seafloor, making underwater cleanup safer and more efficient.

The 1st May full moon happens on May 1. It’ll look full on the nights before and after that, too. The 2nd May full moon – a Blue Moon – will fall on May 30-31.