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Researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute studied female octopuses that nest together off Central California at a depth of about 3,200 meters.

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Here's why 6,000 octopuses like to be under the sea at an 'octopus garden'

2:13pm August 23, 2023

by Nell Greenfieldboyce

Over 6,000 octopuses have been found huddling around an extinct volcano deep in the Pacific Ocean near California, and researchers now think they understand why the octopuses find it so cozy.

Journalists film the live telecast of spacecraft Chandrayaan-3 landing on the moon at ISRO's Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network facility in Bengaluru, India, on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023.

India joins an elite club as first to land a spacecraft near the moon's south pole

1:09pm August 23, 2023

by The Associated Press

Scientists believe the south pole region might hold frozen water that could help future astronaut missions.

Canada is in the midst of an unprecedented wildfire season, intensified by climate change. Firefighters came from all over the world to help, like this team from France, on the fire line north of Chibugamau, Quebec, in June.

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Some of Canada's wildfires likely made worse by human-driven climate change

5:51pm August 22, 2023

by Alejandra Borunda

Climate change intensified eastern Canada's hot, dry, windy weather this summer. That made Quebec's enormous burns about twice as likely, according to a new study.

India is set to land a robotic probe on the moon tomorrow

5:13pm August 22, 2023

by Geoff Brumfiel

Wednesday morning, India will attempt to land a robotic probe on the moon. The targeted landing site of this mission is near the lunar south pole.

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Kate Zernike's book explores the long battle for gender equality at MIT

6:31pm August 21, 2023

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with author Kate Zernike about her book The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science.

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Scientists are skeptical of mysterious supposedly superconductive material

5:22pm August 21, 2023

by Geoff Brumfiel

In recent months, several academic groups have claimed possible discoveries of materials that super-conduct at room temperature. Outside researchers, however, are skeptical.

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Pink Floyd's 'Another Brick in the Wall' helps researchers study the brain

7:58am August 21, 2023

Researchers, studying which parts of the brain are responsible for processing elements of music, played a Pink Floyd song to a group of patients with electrodes implanted in their brains.

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Marine scientists Jan-Olaf Meynecke attaches video-enabled tracking tags to humpback whales near Brisbane, Australia. While collecting data for a larger project on the whales' migration patterns and climate change, Meynecke and his colleagues discovered a new behavior they call "sand rolling."

This video from a humpback 'whale spa' shows skin care is serious — and social

7:00am August 21, 2023

by Carrie Feibel

The footage of humpback whales exfoliating their skin with sand offer new insight into these animals' complex lifestyles deep beneath the ocean

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After a relatively quiet start to the Atlantic hurricane season, the National Hurricane Center was monitoring multiple storm systems in the Atlantic on Sunday.

Tropical Storm Emily takes shape in the Atlantic, as storm activity starts to warm up

3:22pm August 20, 2023

by Jonathan Franklin

As the season is nearing its peak, the Atlantic Ocean has suddenly become very active with several storms that meteorologists and weather forecasters are watching.

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A development in particle physics could point to the existence of a new dimension

10:10am August 20, 2023

by Ayesha Rascoe

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Esra Barlas Yücel, a researcher at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, about Fermilab's most precise measurements of the muon particle's magnetic wobble.

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