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What's this super-aging butterfly’s longevity secret?

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By Berly McCoy, Nathan Rott Verified, Rebecca Ramirez Verified
| NPR Verified
Is pollen the key to a butterfly living for a long time? : Short Wave What if there were a great ape species that could live over 1,000 years? That’s basically Heliconius in the butterfly world. The insects live around 25 times longer than their butterfly cousins, and scientists think they have one clue as to why: pollen. But as Katie Wu, a science writer at The Atlantic, explains, that’s not the whole story.
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Plot twist: We're probably way undercounting insects on Earth

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By Nathan Rott Verified, Regina G. Barber, Scott Detrow Verified, Rachel Carlson Verified, Jordan-Marie Smith
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Plot twist: We're probably way undercounting insects on Earth : Short Wave Maybe you’ve wondered about it late at night as a mosquito buzzes in your ear. Or when you kick over a rock and watch dozens of little critters crawl away: How many types of insects are there in the world? Scientists have been interested in answering this question for years. A new study — based on a census of tiny and, frankly terrifying, parasitoid wasps — suggests there’s way more than previously thought.
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NASA's race against time to rescue a falling satellite

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By Berly McCoy, Nathan Rott Verified, Rebecca Ramirez Verified
| NPR Verified
NASA’s mission to save the falling Swift Satellite : Short Wave A valuable NASA satellite observatory is falling to Earth faster than scientists expected. It’s called the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, or “Swift” for short, and it can respond to celestial events much faster than its sky-gazing counterparts. To save Swift and test out a first-of-its-kind technology, NASA partnered with an Arizona-based startup to launch a refrigerator-sized robot, aptly named Link, into lower Earth orbit.
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