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With names like “death cap” and “destroying angel,” the mushrooms make themselves known, but don’t be fooled by the pretty white flowers of hemlock. It's a killer. iflscience.com/mushrooms-vs-…
The Virgo cluster is more crowded than we thought. iflscience.com/over-2000-new…
Want to ID a treefrog without disturbing it? Just gaze into its eyes. iflscience.com/these-frogs-h…
The optical illusion is reported wherever lighthouses exist, but one Australian Island proved a perfect place to study it. iflscience.com/for-89-years-…
The tail is made from dark, carbon-based material, and so has been difficult to capture in visible light until now. iflscience.com/this-star-sys…
Professor Steve Brusatte explains what can be found inside fossils dating back millions of years. iflscience.com/what-actually…
It’s amazing the things people will believe when they are motivated to discredit Indigenous claims to being there first. iflscience.com/dont-believe-…
No one entered the cave for over 30,000 years, until it was rediscovered in 1994. iflscience.com/some-of-the-w…
Bleached corals in direct contact with healthy corals fully recovered within 8 weeks. iflscience.com/when-corals-a…
But the active ingredient isn't what we thought it was. iflscience.com/ancient-medic…
The number of Neptune's trailing trojans might soon more than double. iflscience.com/two-new-troja…
The spacecraft has been trailed by seven mystery objects. A new image sees it docked with an as-yet-unidentified satellite, and with its payload doors open. iflscience.com/chinas-myster…
Schmidt Sciences’ Lazuli is set to do a lot when it launches in 2029. This could be a really good project! iflscience.com/these-27-exop…
China's Mysterious Spaceplane Seen In Orbit And Docked With An Unidentified Satellite In Newly Unclassified US Military Photo
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The giant stars they might form join the roster of potential explanations for some of the most puzzling objects in space. iflscience.com/frequent-star…
Ghostly episodes sit at the crossroads of what our minds believe and our senses perceive. iflscience.com/haunted-peopl…
TOI-561 b is one of the oldest planets known, and it should not have reflective clouds. iflscience.com/shiny-happy-l…
Humans have always tried to bargain with the unpredictable otherworldly entities they believed in, and also tried to make them. Is AI any different? iflscience.com/demons-alchem…
The newly released files contain information on strange sightings in the skies above the US and elsewhere. iflscience.com/new-batch-of-…
