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The remote island was once crawling with giant Subfossil lemurs, 10 foot-tall elephant birds, and giant tortoises.

There's a drone with rice cakes for wings, too.

The layoffs could have major ramifications for users' experience on the social media platform.

Everything from coastal erosion, to thawing permafrost, to flooding are putting priceless cultural sites at risk.

Make your messages stand out from the crowd.

The human microbiome has been linked to digestion, depression, and more. How might space travel change it?

It’s a work in progress.

Asteroids may be more important to understanding the universe than we thought.

Dangerous misinformation can lead to lots of attention—which isn't necessarily a bad thing for a social media company's bottom line.

Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai's eruption was one of the most powerful ever recorded and triggered devastating tsunamis.

A sophisticated experiment buried under Antarctica is tracing neutrinos to their extraterrestrial origin.

The newest update to Google's Flood Hub tool isn't flashy, but it will save lives.

The platypus is a very threatened species in some parts of Australia.

The opioid epidemic has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans since 1999.

Multiple rungs of AI training systems may lower the time-consuming, pricey hurdles for future robots.

Playing devil's advocate in public meetings or online can have unintended consequences.

You can't just dunk a bowl in a river and expect to strike it rich.

A new tracking study shows just how far belugas will go to avoid loud ship traffic.

It's a tricky challenge to convert collected data into useful information.

Since the 1970's, dummies resembled only men, but a new design offers much needed physiological diversity to safety tests.