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Teamwork Between Species Is The Key To Life Itself

“The Call of the Honeyguide” traces the mutualisms found throughout nature, from hunting pairs to the microbes all around us.

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September 12, 2025

Octopuses can use their suckers to detect harmful microbes on the surface of objects like crab shells, or their own eggs. Plus, a new book charts the millennia-old history of our fascination with aliens, and how myth transformed into research. And, golden oyster mushrooms have escaped from home growing kits into the wild. Could they affect fungal diversity in North American forests?

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How to Make Quark Soup

Using massive feats of engineering, Brookhaven National Laboratory has devised a recipe for cooking up tiny ephemeral batches of this quark-gluon soup, a fluid which physicists Paul Sorensen say is the most “perfect” fluid ever discovered.

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