City-dwelling raccoons seem to be evolving a shorter snout—a telltale feature of our pets and other domesticated animals ...

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Centuries before other galaxies were known to exist, astronomers called them “spiral nebulas.” Today the defunct term still ...

A trove of e-mails from convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was released by a congressional committee on Wednesday ...

Blue Origin successfully launched — and partially landed — the company’s New Glenn rocket Thursday, marking a major step ...

A trove of e-mails from convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was released by a congressional committee on Wednesday For years, a French mathematician searched for a proof that a gigantic number is ...

Chinese scientists have become the first to visit one of Earth’s most remote and geologically intriguing realms: an ...

Nearly two million U.S. turkeys have died from bird flu in recent months. An agricultural economist explains what ongoing ...

A surprising diversity of dog shapes and sizes evolved long before the Victorians began making modern breeds Modern dog breeds come in a mind-boggling array of shapes and sizes—from Chihuahua to Great ...

Computer scientist Yoshua Bengio has become the first person to have their work cited more than one million times on the search engine Google Scholar.

An 18-year dataset from the North Sea reveals that rogue waves are not freak accidents but particular products of ordinary ...

Ten years after the Paris climate agreement, the limited progress we’ve made in reducing global warming means that there will ...