This discovery brings closure to a decades-long mystery and reminds us of the human stories embedded in the history of ...

Nor was this a uniquely Concorde problem. The other supersonic commercial aircraft, the USSR’s Tupolev Tu-144, was even worse ...

By the end of the two months, eight of the 10 marmosets that made it into the final analysis were tapping regularly, ...

It’s been a source of contention in the 21st century as local residents longed to join the world of wireless. Now, for the ...

On the Indonesian island of Sumatra, the report explains that the Sumatran rhino population remains the same since numbers ...

In this study, after adjusting for other lifestyle and dietary factors associated with diabetes risk, potato intake emerged ...

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Normally, having something rip a hole in your roof is the sign of a bad day, but you’d probably feel different about this.

We’ve found bioluminescent jellyfish, squid, and fish, but the largest luminous vertebrate known to science? That, my friends, is a glow-in-the-dark shark. The kitefin shark was one of three “glowing ...

The Will-Essex zone sat in the nearshore–offshore transition, its seafloor bustling with clams and marked by telltale trace fossils. Farther out, the Kankakee-Essex zone was ruled by cnidarians, a ...

It was made using NASA’s Goddard Earth Observing System, a sophisticated model that uses data from satellite observations, on-the-ground measurements, and weather stations to better understand the ...

It turns out that whoever named the great white shark must have been underneath one, looking up, when they did so: “The name ...