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Harsh winters are due to climate change

Our hotter summers are also impacting our colder winters. Find out more with today's A Moment of Science. Read More »

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Crabgrass has a sneaky trick

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Crabgrass might be an eyesore in your lawn, but it presents an even bigger for crop growth.

A dark chimpanzee with its mouth open against a grassy background

Would you ever mistake playground hoots as the call of a real baboon or great ape?

A larger bumble bee is in focus on a flower, while a smaller bee sits farther back away from the camera

The Great American Eclipse of 2017 raised some interesting questions about bee behavior.

An illustration from the 1800s of a surgeon's nitrous oxide instrument

Nitrous oxide isn't often talked about these days, but it is still an important greenhouse gas.

An open, green meadow with mountains in the background on a cloudless day

They might be inconvenient on a personal level, but bees play a very important role in our environment.

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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.

Carlo Bononi’s Incoronazione della Virgine

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.

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

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.