The Serengeti looks much like it did hundreds of years ago. Lions, hyenas and other major predators still lurk herds of wildebeest over a million…
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The P.1 coronavirus variant first identified in Brazil may be twice as transmissible as previous strains and may elude up to nearly half of the…
U.S. federal health officials are taking an urgent break in the administration of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine following rare reports of blood clots in…
A new study suggests that screams of joy are easier to understand by our brains than screams of fear. The results add an astonishing new…
As climate change brings more forest fires to the western United States, a rare fungal infection has also been on the rise. Valley fever is…
A Magellanic penguin in Brazil ingested a face mask. A hedgehog in England became entangled in a glove. An octopus off the coast of France…
The stony corals that build reefs hid their diversity from view. A genetic analysis of the most widespread reef coral in the Indo-Pacific revealed that…
Wind power is on the rise in the United States. By 2020, turbines generated about 8 percent of the country’s electricity, about 50 times the…
Selling double The New Zealand lizard tuatara is the first known vertebrate with two mitochondrial genomes, Devin A. Reese reported in “The tuatara hides an…
The walk under the ice of an autonomous underwater vehicle is giving scientists their first direct evidence of how and where the warm waters of…