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The fall equinox is here. What does that mean?
NEW YORK (AP) — Fall is in the air — officially. The equinox arrives on Saturday, marking the start of the fall season for the Northern Hemisphere. But what does that actually mean? Here's what to know about how we split up the year using the Ear...
Hungry ticks can use this static trick to land on you and your pets
NEW YORK (AP) — Hungry ticks have some slick tricks. They can zoom through the air using static electricity to latch onto people, pets and other animals, new research shows. Humans and animals naturally pick up static charges as they go about t...
Danish masters prepped canvases with leftovers from brewing beer
NEW YORK (AP) — Danish painters in the 19th century may have turned to an unusual source for some of their supplies: breweries. Researchers examined paintings from the Danish Golden Age and found traces of yeast and grains. That suggests painters wer...
Rosalind Franklin's role in DNA discovery gets a new twist
NEW YORK (AP) — The discovery of DNA's double helix structure 70 years ago opened up a world of new science — and also sparked disputes over who contributed what and who deserves credit. Much of the controversy comes from a central idea: that James W...
Save the date: One year until total solar eclipse sweeps US
NEW YORK (AP) — Dust off your eclipse glasses: It's only a year until a total solar eclipse sweeps across North America. On April 8, 2024, the moon will cast its shadow across a stretch of the U.S., Mexico and Canada, plunging millions of people i...
Planets on parade: 5 will be lined up in night sky this week
NEW YORK (AP) — Keep an eye to the sky this week for a chance to see a planetary hangout. Five planets — Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Uranus and Mars — will line up near the moon. WHERE AND WHEN CAN YOU SEE THEM? The best day to catch the whole group...
What made Beethoven sick? DNA from his hair offers clues
NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly 200 years after Ludwig van Beethoven's death, researchers pulled DNA from strands of his hair, searching for clues about the health problems and hearing loss that plagued him. They weren't able to crack the case of the G...
How this little see-through fish gets its rainbow shimmer
NEW YORK (AP) — You can see right through this little aquarium fish from Thailand: Its skin is almost completely transparent. But when the light hits it just right, its body flickers with shimmering rainbow colors. Now, scientists have figured out ho...
EXPLAINER: Arctic blast sweeps US, bomb cyclone possible
NEW YORK (AP) — An arctic blast is bringing extreme cold, heavy snow and intense wind across much of the U.S. this week — just in time for the holidays. The weather system, which may build into a "bomb cyclone," is expected to move east in the days l...
Mystery Nevada fossil site could be ancient maternity ward
NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have uncovered new clues about a curious fossil site in Nevada, a graveyard for dozens of giant marine reptiles. Instead of the site of a massive die-off as suspected, it might have been an ancient maternity ward where t...
Partial solar eclipse takes a bite out of the sun
Much of Europe and parts of Africa and Asia saw the moon take a bite out of the sun during the second and last solar eclipse of the year. The partial eclipse took about four hours. At its peak, the eclipse covered more than 80% of the sun. A solar...
Are you a mosquito magnet? It could be your smell
NEW YORK (AP) — A new study finds that some people really are "mosquito magnets" and it probably has to do with the way they smell. The researchers found that people who are most attractive to mosquitoes produce a lot of certain chemicals on their s...
Scientists use tiny trackers, plane to follow moths on move
NEW YORK (AP) — Trillions of insects migrate across the globe each year, yet little is known about their journeys. So to look for clues, scientists in Germany took to the skies, placing tiny trackers on the backs of giant moths and following them by...
Do spiders sleep? Study suggests they may snooze like humans
NEW YORK (AP) — It's a question that keeps some scientists awake at night: Do spiders sleep? Daniela Roessler and her colleagues trained cameras on baby jumping spiders at night to find out. The footage showed patterns that looked a lot like sleep c...
