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You’ve heard the slogans: save the whales, protect our pollinators. You may have lamented the decline of polar bears or the last of the northern white rhinos. But scientists are only beginning to ...

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Enter the fascinating world of birdbugs an imaginative fusion of avian and insect traits brought to life through speculative biology. This video explores how these fictional creatures might evolve, ...

Cancer is a heterogeneous group of diseases rather than a single entity. Even when it affects the same organ, it can take different forms that have various causes and respond to different therapies.

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Limericks to illustrate scientific principles. An enormous crop; we haven’t verified that the selection that we print are original, and in at least one case the ...

The roots of Russia's invasion of Ukraine go back decades and run deep. The current conflict is more than one country fighting to take over another; it is — in the words of one U.S. official — a shift ...