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Newborn pilot whales have been spotted mysteriously swimming among pods of orcas. Scientists are trying to puzzle out how the ...

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A coalition of autism scientists has formed to counter RFK, Jr.’s misrepresentations of science and of autism spectrum ...

Researchers have shown that abstract mathematical functions from the frontiers of theoretical physics have a real-world use ...

Inuit languages really do have many words for snow, linguists found—and other languages have conceptual specialties, too, ...

As U.S. childhood vaccination rates sway on a “knife’s edge,” new 25-year projections reveal how slight changes in national ...

A bill to repeal the ban on supersonic flights over the U.S. could increase the demand for the gas-guzzling jets from around ...

The quirks of light moving through gas are the cause of stellar twinkling, which can be a bane—and sometimes a boon—for ...

Tornadoes are predicted across swaths of the U.S. in the coming days, likely adding to this year’s already high tally of such ...

AI chatbot companions may not be real, but the feelings users form for them are. Some scientists worry about long-term ...

NASA’s nearly complete yet canceled lunar rover VIPER isn’t going to get carried to the moon by a private space exploration ...