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Scientists have been monitoring the development of a new evolutionary change in humans. More people are being born with an “extra” artery running down their forearms. The change is likely ...

Home News Science & Astronomy Bill Nye, everybody's favorite "science guy," has teamed up with 4-H to take students to Mars (figuratively speaking.) 4-H is a network of youth organizations across ...

The financial district of New York City as seen from Liberty State Park in New Jersey during the COVID-19 pandemic. Credit: Pamela McElwee The COVID-19 pandemic provides an opportunity to ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service declared the Eastern black rail a threatened species on Wednesday, but stopped short of the stronger protections some environmentalists were seeking for the elusive ...

A space probe is about to fly by Venus, and it could help search for the faint signatures of life in the planet’s atmosphere. The BepiColombo probe is slated to ...

An international collaboration between researchers at Queen Mary University of London and the Chinese Academy of Science in Nanjing has led to the discovery of world's oldest animal sperm inside ...

Africa is on its way to completing the next world wonder — a nearly 5,000-mile (8,047-kilometer) belt of greenery and conservation initiatives covering the continent's entire width. This lofty goal, ...

In early June 2011, NOAA Fisheries researchers and colleagues placed satellite tags on 26 loggerhead sea turtles in the Mid-Atlantic Bight. The tagging was part of ongoing studies of loggerhead ...

Sharks have more complex social lives than previously known, as shown by a study finding that gray reef sharks in the Pacific Ocean cultivate surprising social networks with one another ...

Seth Borenstein, Ap Science Writer Updated 11:48 pm CDT, Wednesday, August 5, 2020 FILE - In this Friday, Aug. 23, 2019, file photo, female northern white rhinos Fatu, right, and Najin, ...