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The importance of rediscovery and the nose-horned lizard

A researcher found a nose-horned lizard in 2018, which hadn't been seen for 130 years! Read More »

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Fungi and plants have a complicated relationship status

A cluster of brown fungi with mushroom caps comes out of the green grass

Some fungi are useful to plants, some can kill. But it turns out their relationship gets more complex than this.

A yellow rotary phone sitting on a stack of white papers against a white wall

Even if we can't see someone while they're talking, our brains still pick up their gestures.

A coyote with a brown coat turns towards the camera in the snow

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

A hummingbird with a red throat, white chest and tan head and wings flies against a pink sky

Animals sometimes understand numbers without school or even language.

Cubes of multicolored jello sit in martini glasses

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

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Surprising Science: How Fungi Can Help Conquer The Final Frontier

The fibers of mycelium in mushrooms cover a large area

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.