The scientists learned many cool things. Just like birds and insects, the bats adjusted their flight speeds in response to the wind. When wind support increased, the bats flew more slowly. When there ...

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Mars is cold, parched, and extremely dusty. Powerful gusts of wind kick up literal tons of reddish dust that often takes the form of whorls known as dust devils. These winds also shroud the planet in ...

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As the season of shadows arrives, let’s lean into the darkness this year with some nontraditional thrills. Annie Neugebauer’s “The Extra” (Shortwave Publishing, 136 pages, $14.99) offers a short, ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Two decades of observations by a pair of orbiting spacecraft have enabled scientists to track the whirlwinds called "dust devils" that regularly pirouette across the ...