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This beautiful moth is painted with images of other insects (and bird poop)

"Tell me again about your eyespots, those must have taken you FOREVER to evolve. Oh, this? Just a mural of two flies eating bird droppings."

I want to live in a baugruppe

If you could create your perfect living situation, what would it look like? Here's my answer.

Tesla Motors earns $26 million in the 2nd quarter — thanks to the government

Tesla is a model for how government support can help bring ambitious new technologies to market.

High school students made the best raps about science we’ve ever seen

Science-class raps are a bit of a trend.

Is Keystone XL a distraction from more important climate fights?

Or is it pointless to criticize the one climate movement that's gotten the most traction in the U.S.? An article in Nature tries to stoke a debate.

Cute, weird, nearly defenseless pangolins are in danger because people won’t stop eating them

There are eight species of pangolin, and all eight are in decline.

Pipeline dreams: Why fossil-fuel divestment is easier said than done

Despite calls for divestment at 308 college campuses, only six (mostly small) schools have listened. What's stopping the rest?

Greatest Craiglist Missed Connections ad in history makes the train seem so much more romantic

It may be one of the loveliest pieces of public transit-related short fiction ever written.

Why would you punch a seal? This zookeeper did

Don't punch a seal. Unless it's a zombie, the antichrist, or an evil robot. Or just never, to be on the safe side.

Steve King insults climate scientists and religious Americans simultaneously

The GOP rep from Iowa, most recently in the news for his "calves the size of cantaloupes" comment, turns his eloquence to the topic of climate change.