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The coywolf hybrid takes over the East coast

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Eastern wolves and coyotes have been interbreeding more frequently over the past several hundred years

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Do animals use math?

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Animals sometimes understand numbers without school or even language.

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Variety is the texture of life

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Researchers looked into the role texture plays in how full we feel after eating.

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How grasshoppers are able to hang around upside-down

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How do insects handle being upside-down for so long?

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Having a eureka moment can cloud our judgement

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A eureka moment is an experience where a solution or idea suddenly appears in your mind and immediately feels true.

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Surprising Science: How Fungi Can Help Conquer The Final Frontier

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Today's Surprising Science looks at the emerging field of astromycology and how fungi might just hold the key to our space exploration efforts.

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Surprising Science: Bacteria Working As Art Restorers

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Our last Surprising Science took us out of this world to learn more about how scientists determine potentially habitable planets. Today, we’re back on Earth to look at how some of our smallest life forms are impacting the art world.

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The Traveling Lazarus Lizard

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How does introducing a new species impact an environment? The unique case of the Lazarus lizard shows there's more than one possible outcome.

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Surprising Science: Geology In Space

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Scientific breakthroughs can come from some surprising sources. Today's episode of Surprising Science looks at how different branches can create breakthroughs in other fields.

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Surprising Science: How The Film "Frozen" Helped Solve A Cold Case

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Scientific breakthroughs can come from surprising sources. In the second installment of this series, we look at another recent example of this.

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