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A 40-year-old conjecture on shapes’ cross sections is finally proven ...

The velvet worm, a squishy little predator that looks like the stretch-limo version of a caterpillar, has a whimsical MO: it ...

Scientists have captured the first videos of wild roundworms forming living, wriggling towers that behave as one big superorganism ...

Science communicator Hank Green explains how our species’ unique intelligence got us into this climate mess—and how it will help us solve it ...

Government layoffs threaten to make it easier for the Trump administration to ditch draft heat safety regulations ...

The Haenyeo, an all-female group of divers on South Korea’s Jeju Island, spend much of their lives underwater without ...

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Neuroscientists can now make precise genetic tweaks to the neurons that are most affected by brain diseases such as Parkinson ...