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The pups head out on their own after only 15 to 20 days of nursing.

‘It… seems unlikely that cannibalism was practiced out of necessity.'

Hobby fossil hunters found over 500 fossils in the murky waters of the Steinhatchee River.

Evolution left us with some organs and functions we no longer need.

North America’s largest bird disappeared from the wild in the late 1980s. Reintroduction work in the United States and Mexico has brought this huge vulture back to the skies. This is the story of its comeback.

A duo of Americans and Polaris take home the win in the 2025 Dakar’s SSV Class.

The controversial submersible’s catastrophic failure killed five passengers en route to the ‘Titanic.’

Scientists added naturally detoxifying enzymes found in microbes to lab embryos.

These cross-modal associations are one of the cognitive foundations of language.

Combining two common gestures appears to do the trick.

Researchers were able to recycle the same cell multiple times without losing much energy efficiency.

'With this ultra-high energy neutrino, we are opening a new window in our universe.'

'It’s similar to how we might memorize where our favorite pizza place is.’

Plus other weird things we learned this week.

With its oversized Geiger counter and promises of getting rich, Uranium Rush packaged the dangerous and exploitative uranium industry as family-friendly entertainment.

'...the air was thick with despair as the people gathered in processions, praying for rain.’

The flagship Beats workout earbuds offer pretty much everything you'd get from AirPods Pro with a sturdy hook to keep them in place.

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 prototype hit its necessary ‘Mach cutoff.'

'Prolonged stress … can subtly alter how we perceive the world around us.'

Physicists ‘stumbled on a previously undiscovered anomaly’ beneath the Pacific Ocean.