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Two frogs are shown in a body of water.

Female frogs play dead to avoid mating? Some do, study found

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Jack Izzo
Aug. 4, 2025 Biologists call the response "tonic immobility," and know it's a response to a high-stress envir ...
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Close up of NASA astronaut Mike Fincke in a spacesuit and helmet with the visor lifted

Claim that NASA astronauts get $66K starting salary doesn't add up

Written by:
Emery Winter
Aug. 3, 2025 The figure was from 2019, and was a minimum as opposed to the starting salary. By 2025, NASA ast ...
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Video really shows rabbits jumping on trampoline?

Written by:
Laerke Christensen
Aug. 2, 2025 Millions of people saw the endearing, but fake, clip.
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Video shows raccoons bouncing on trampolines?

Written by:
Laerke Christensen
Aug. 1, 2025 Footage appeared to show a group of the animals having a blast on a pair of backyard trampolines.
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No link between aluminum in childhood vaccines and chronic illnesses, Danish study found

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Anna Rascouët-Paz
July 31, 2025 Danish researchers followed 1.2 million children and found aluminum in vaccines did not cause au ...
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Screenshot of Instagram post about comet being an alien ship. Shows a generic asteroid behind a screengrab from a radio telescope and above text saying the comet is "most likely" an alien ship

Probing claim that interstellar object is 'most likely' an alien ship heading towards Earth

Written by:
Emery Winter
July 31, 2025 3I/ATLAS is just the third recorded interstellar object to enter the solar system. However, the ...
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Video allegedly showing beached belugas before 2025 Russian earthquake doesn't hold water

Written by:
Joey Esposito
July 30, 2025 The video, though real, was 2 years old.
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Screenshot of AI-generated image of dramatic solar halo over Stonehenge

Photo of solar halo over Stonehenge isn't what it seems

Written by:
Emery Winter
July 30, 2025 Two separate AI-generated images were edited together to create what appeared to be an "incredib ...
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Close up of a California ground squirrel with cheeks full of food and a little red around its mouth while it stands near campers' gear

Claim spread squirrels in California have turned carnivorous. We hunted down the details

Written by:
Emery Winter
July 30, 2025 Researchers found that squirrels at a California park hunted and ate voles in 2024 during a spik ...
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Rumors about Chinese researchers creating bee-control device buzzing out of control

Written by:
Cindy Shan
July 27, 2025 The lightweight device can influence bee behavior in laboratory settings, but current limitation ...
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Watch out for videos of ginormous anacondas in Amazon River

Written by:
Aleksandra Wrona
July 26, 2025 Using Sora, a text-to-video model developed by OpenAI, a TikTok creator produced a series of vid ...
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Screenshot of AI-generated image of floating Norwegian greenhouse. It has a bunch of crops with people between them inside, and fish aquariums beneath. Solar panels are on its roof

Norway didn't develop a floating greenhouse called 'Ocean Bloom'

Written by:
Emery Winter
July 24, 2025 The purported greenhouse was just another fabrication from a Facebook page that posts about fake ...
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What to know about supposed Ring doorbell security breach in May 2025

Written by:
Jack Izzo
July 21, 2025 Ring said on social media that strange login patterns were caused by a programming error, not ha ...
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Photo of a single bison crossing a road. Mountains in the background

Video shows bison leaving Yellowstone in 'mass exodus'?

Written by:
Emery Winter
July 21, 2025 The same person was the source of rumors that bears and mountain lions were leaving the national ...
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A screenshot of map used in Facebook post. Map is of U.S. Pacific coast, with red rings pinging the location of Axial Seamount

Undersea volcano off Oregon coast could erupt in 2025, but isn't a threat to people

Written by:
Emery Winter
July 18, 2025 The U.S. Geological Survey said in May 2025 that the volcano is "exciting, not hazardous."
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Discovery of 'super-Earth' exoplanet not as 'strange' as some reports claim

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Joey Esposito
July 17, 2025 The discovery of a new exoplanet garnered some big, though somewhat misinformed, reactions online.
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Screenshot of fallstreak cloud video on top of a transparent background of the same image

Real video of rare 'fallstreak hole' cloud formation?

Written by:
Emery Winter
July 17, 2025 Fallstreak holes, also called cavum, sometimes occur when airplanes fly through certain clouds h ...
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Screenshot of viral artificial tree post. Shows tuning fork shaped structures in the desert. Text says Columbia University developed artificial tree that passively removes CO2 from the atmosphere 1,000 times faster than real trees

Columbia University developed artificial trees designed to clean air? What to know

Written by:
Emery Winter
July 16, 2025 Viral posts claimed scientists developed "artificial trees" to clean the air 1,000 times more ef ...
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Picture of a mountain lion leaping between two rocks

Mountain lions are not leaving Yellowstone for Utah, despite popular video's claim

Written by:
Emery Winter
July 15, 2025 The same person also posted an out-of-context video claiming bears were leaving the iconic natio ...
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Large ice blocks are seen on top of water that is frozen over.

Online reports claimed ocean current near Antarctica 'reversed direction.' Research didn't show that

Written by:
Jack Izzo
July 14, 2025 Researchers measuring the salinity of the Southern Ocean did find unexpected results, but some o ...
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