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I n 2018, Tahlequah the killer whale made headlines and broke hearts after she was spotted carrying the body of her dead calf ...

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A reactor that splits water to make hydrogen using sunlight and catalysts, without conversion to electricity in between, has ...

With COVID in retreat (thanks to highly effective vaccines), the three infectious diseases causing public health officials ...

According to the archaeological record, humans started using the material somewhere between 500,000 to 330,000 years ago, ...

"Biological ensembles use collective intelligence to tackle challenges together, but suboptimal coordination can undermine the effectiveness of group cognition," the team wrote in their paper, ...

Every episode of season 4 of The Big Questions podcast is now available, where we explore the biggest questions in science ...