This Week’s Most Intriguing Discoveries

It's raining cats and dogs—and unicorns. Here's the week's five most intriguing discoveries.

In between covering this disaster, we found some cool discoveries lurking around. Here's what you should know:

Snails are hermaphrodites, so the love potion goes both ways. Terrestrial slugs employ a "love dart," which they shoot into their mates. It's coated with a substance that helps sperm to survive. Gives a whole new twist to "Bad Romance."

What's the big deal about studying these old cats? Researchers hope that understanding how they responded to environmental change will help us understand how today's big cats will respond to changes in the future.

The news comes on the heels of NASA's plans to test inflatable space tents with Bigelow's company in 2015. But it turns out that the moon may have deposits of valuable

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