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Carolyn Wilke

Bio

Carolyn Wilke is a Chicago-based freelance science journalist and a contributing editor at Science News Explores. She covers chemistry, earth science and animal oddities for readers old and young. Her work appears in The New York Times, National Geographic, Knowable Magazine, Undark, and other outlets.

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Life

Backflipping springtails are the fastest spinners known in nature

Life

Watch bees defend their nest by slapping ants with their wings

Environment

Microplastic pollution rained down on Canada during a hurricane

Life

African penguins recognise their partners by the spots on their chest

Humans

Ancient make-up in Chinese tomb includes concealer and skin lightener

Environment

Treated sewage released into rivers may hamper eel migrations

Life

Bat guano has been sculpting caves in Brazil for thousands of years

Life

Ancient droppings may help save kakapo parrots from extinction

Quaternary Science Reviews reporting that people at the Border Cave site may have roasted and eaten snails 170,000 years ago.

Humans

Ancient humans may have cooked and eaten snails 170,000 years ago

Dusky gregory farmerfish Stegastes nigricans

Life

Algae-farming fish help coral reefs bounce back from bleaching events

Two elephants embracing with their trunks through the bars of an enclosure

Life

Elephants may remember the smell of a relative’s dung for 12 years

Deepwater Horizon oil spill

Earth

Sponge can soak up and release spilled oil hundreds of times