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How To Attract A Mate The White-Tailed Way: With Ultraviolet Glowing Urinemale white-tailed deer

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How To Attract A Mate The White-Tailed Way: With Ultraviolet Glowing Urinemale white-tailed deer
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How To Attract A Mate The White-Tailed Way: With Ultraviolet Glowing Urine

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Australian Mammals’ Black Light Glow Is Caused By Several Different MoleculesThe coppery brushtail possum glows in a mix of colors when exposed to UV light, but they also have non-luminescent molecules that complicate their shade.

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Australian Mammals’ Black Light Glow Is Caused By Several Different MoleculesThe coppery brushtail possum glows in a mix of colors when exposed to UV light, but they also have non-luminescent molecules that complicate their shade.
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Australian Mammals’ Black Light Glow Is Caused By Several Different Molecules

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Biofluorescence vs BioluminescenceYou wish jellyfish

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Biofluorescence vs BioluminescenceYou wish jellyfish
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Biofluorescence vs Bioluminescence

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There’s An Enormous "Glow In The Dark" Cloud Of Gas We Never Noticed Remarkably Close To EarthDark molecular clouds like LDN 1768, shown here, are hard to see in visible light hidden behind dense clouds of dust.

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There’s An Enormous "Glow In The Dark" Cloud Of Gas We Never Noticed Remarkably Close To EarthDark molecular clouds like LDN 1768, shown here, are hard to see in visible light hidden behind dense clouds of dust.
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There’s An Enormous "Glow In The Dark" Cloud Of Gas We Never Noticed Remarkably Close To Earth

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Blueberries Do Not Contain Blue Pigment, So Why Do We See Them As Blue?Blueberries in tiny fruit baskets.

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Blueberries Do Not Contain Blue Pigment, So Why Do We See Them As Blue?Blueberries in tiny fruit baskets.
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Blueberries Do Not Contain Blue Pigment, So Why Do We See Them As Blue?

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Lost 1,750-Year-Old Bible Translation Fragment Found Inside Vatican Library ManuscriptOld big bible

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Lost 1,750-Year-Old Bible Translation Fragment Found Inside Vatican Library ManuscriptOld big bible
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Lost 1,750-Year-Old Bible Translation Fragment Found Inside Vatican Library Manuscript

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Reindeer’s Freaky Eyes Give Them In-Built Night Vision For Spotting Snacksclose up of reindeer eye

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Reindeer’s Freaky Eyes Give Them In-Built Night Vision For Spotting Snacksclose up of reindeer eye
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Reindeer’s Freaky Eyes Give Them In-Built Night Vision For Spotting Snacks

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Mars Is Unrecognizable In These Ultraviolet ObservationsNASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) mission acquired stunning views of Mars in two ultraviolet images taken at different points along our neighboring planet’s orbit around the Su

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Mars Is Unrecognizable In These Ultraviolet ObservationsNASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) mission acquired stunning views of Mars in two ultraviolet images taken at different points along our neighboring planet’s orbit around the Su
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Mars Is Unrecognizable In These Ultraviolet Observations

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New Chapter Of The Bible Found Hidden Inside 1,750-Year-Old TextBible text illuminated in UV, revealing hidden text underneath.

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New Chapter Of The Bible Found Hidden Inside 1,750-Year-Old TextBible text illuminated in UV, revealing hidden text underneath.
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New Chapter Of The Bible Found Hidden Inside 1,750-Year-Old Text

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UV Nail Polish Dryers May Damage The DNA In Our HandsUV-emitting gel nail polish drying device

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UV Nail Polish Dryers May Damage The DNA In Our HandsUV-emitting gel nail polish drying device
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UV Nail Polish Dryers May Damage The DNA In Our Hands

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Active Supermassive Black Holes Are More Powerful Than We Had ImaginedAn artist’s impression of what the dust around a quasar might look like from a light year away.

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Active Supermassive Black Holes Are More Powerful Than We Had ImaginedAn artist’s impression of what the dust around a quasar might look like from a light year away.
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Active Supermassive Black Holes Are More Powerful Than We Had Imagined

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Flying Squirrels Have Glow-In-The-Dark Hot Pink Fur Under UV Lightarticle image

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Flying Squirrels Have Glow-In-The-Dark Hot Pink Fur Under UV Lightarticle image
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Flying Squirrels Have Glow-In-The-Dark Hot Pink Fur Under UV Light

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This Is What The World Would Look Like If You Were A Birdarticle image

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This Is What The World Would Look Like If You Were A Birdarticle image
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This Is What The World Would Look Like If You Were A Bird

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Worms Can Taste Sunlightarticle image

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Worms Can Taste Sunlightarticle image
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Worms Can Taste Sunlight

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Some Of Your Suntan Comes From Beyond The Milky Wayarticle image

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Some Of Your Suntan Comes From Beyond The Milky Wayarticle image
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Some Of Your Suntan Comes From Beyond The Milky Way

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