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More Than 100 Mammals Glow Under UV Light, Perhaps Even Your Pet

Break out the black lights!

By Cassidy Ward 1 month ago

This Weird Planet Is the Shiniest We’ve Ever Seen, Thanks to Metal Clouds

It's basically covered in a mirror glaze.

By Cassidy Ward 4 months ago

The Universe Might Be Twice as Old as We Thought

That's a pretty big rounding error.

By Cassidy Ward 4 months ago

Will the Stars Really 'Vanish' in 20 Years?

Maybe, sort of.

By Cassidy Ward 5 months ago

Astronomers detect a mysterious glow around the solar system

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

By Cassidy Ward 11 months ago

Using light to turn cow farts into liquid fuel

Climate change stinks.

By Cassidy Ward 1 year ago

Showoff birds finally give away secret to their iridescent feathers

Until now, we didn’t know what was behind the flashy iridescent feathers of birds like peacocks.

By Elizabeth Rayne 1 year ago

Close Encounters of the algal kind! Phytoplankton communicate with light

What could they be talking about?

By Cassidy Ward 1 year ago

New pix of Jupiter will rock your (very very large) world

By Phil Plait 2 years ago

The eerie, unearthly sight of polar stratospheric clouds

By Phil Plait 2 years ago