Bats congregate in the Bat Cave in Queen Elizabeth National Park on August 24, 2018. Scientists placed GPS devices on some of the bats to determine flight patterns and how they transmit Marburg virus to humans. Approximately 50,000 bats dwell in the cave. Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty Images hide caption
A female cockroach considers accepting a sugary offering from a male cockroach. Ayako Wada-Katsumata hide caption
Officials announced Thursday plans to return Lolita — an orca that has lived in captivity at the Miami Seaquarium for more than 50 years — to its home waters in the Pacific Northwest. Here, trainer Marcia Hinton pets Lolita, a captive orca whale, during a performance at the Miami Seaquarium in Miami, March 9, 1995. Nuri Vallbona/AP hide caption
There are no lasting photos of Eunice Foote. Her experiments set the foundation for climate science. Carlyn Iverson/NOAA Climate.gov hide caption
Pro-abortion rights advocates march in Boise, Idaho following the publication of a leaked U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion to overturn Roe v. Wade in May 2022. James Dawson/Boise State Public Radio hide caption
Diagram of the network of neurons in an insect brain. Johns Hopkins University & University of Cambridge hide caption
A meatball made using genetic code from the mammoth is seen at the Nemo science museum in Amsterdam on Tuesday. Mike Corder/AP hide caption
Raphael Mechoulam delivers a speech at a cannabis conference in Tel Aviv in 2016. JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
The perennial rice 'Yunda 107' is harvested in the Yunnan Province of China. Perennial rice can be harvested for successive regrowth seasons, maintaining a relatively stable yield and greatly reducing labor input. China News Service/China News Service via Getty Ima hide caption
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Gordon Moore, the legendary Intel Corp. co-founder who predicted the growth of the semiconductor industry, smiles during a news conference in 2001. Ben Margot/AP hide caption
Leading our news round up is news of a giant floating mat of grassy brown algae called Sargassum. It has grown from small patches in the Sargasso Sea and can now be seen from space. THOMAS COEX/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
The Milky Way's Galactic Center and Jupiter (brightest spot at center top) are seen from near Reboledo, department of Florida, Uruguay, early on August 24, 2020. Mariana Suarez/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A raccoon dog looks out of its cage in Xin Yuan wild animal market in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, 06 January 2004. PETER PARKS/AFP via Getty Images hide caption