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Wi-Fi Routers Can Identify People with Stunning Precision (Even When Their Phones Are Off)

Wi-Fi Routers Can Identify People with Stunning Precision (Even When Their Phones Are Off)

Researchers in Germany have warned that ordinary Wi-Fi could become a surprisingly powerful surveillance tool. A team at Karlsruhe Institute…

Bolivian river dolphins anaconda

Bolivian river dolphins sometimes dangle anacondas in their mouths and scientists don’t know why

Not all dolphins live in the oceans. Some can be found swimming in major rivers, especially in South America and…

Narwhal in the ocean

Six Narwhals Revealed Atlantic Heat Hiding Deep Inside Greenland’s Fjords

Narwhals are among the strangest animals in the oceans. They’re like unicorns of the sea, with the males growing a…

Brown bird of prey with black tail feathers and vivid yellow eyes and yellow on the beak wings, standing on a dirt mound. Female Montagu

One Male Bird Is Almost Single-Handedly Keeping His Species Alive in Britain

Take six chicks, two different nests, and two females, and add one very active (and very promiscuous) male; and, apparently,…

The Colorado River Is Drying Up and the West Is Running Out of Easy Choices

The Colorado River Is Drying Up and the West Is Running Out of Easy Choices

Flow in the Colorado River has shrunk by about 20% since 2000, compared to 20th century amounts. Credit: Sergiy Galyonkin/Flickr,…

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2,000 Pairs of Underwear Were Turned Into a Giant Soil Experiment and the Results Were Surprisingly Revealing

Slightly or heavily decomposed? The more active the soil organisms, the faster the cotton material decomposes. Credit: Priska Koller, Agroscope.…

A Forested Island the Size of Two Football Fields Appeared Out of Nowhere in Canada. Then It Mysteriously Vanished

A Forested Island the Size of Two Football Fields Appeared Out of Nowhere in Canada. Then It Mysteriously Vanished

Still from footage of the reported new island at Williston. Credit: Facebook. For a while, the simplest explanation was that…

Earth Microbes Could Survive on the Moon’s Poles for Weeks and NASA Scientists Are Worried

Earth Microbes Could Survive on the Moon’s Poles for Weeks and NASA Scientists Are Worried

The next astronauts to walk near the Moon’s south pole will bring drills, rovers, spacesuits—and an unavoidable piece of Earth.…

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