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The birth of a cloned black-footed ferret named Elizabeth Ann, and her two new sisters, has sparked a new pilot program to preserve the tissues of hundreds of endangered species “just in case”

Years in the making, a project in the Amazon rain forest is finally set to determine whether a rise in carbon dioxide could save one of the world’s largest carbon sinks.

The U.S. is paying hundreds of millions of dollars to replenish storm-ravaged beaches in a losing battle against rising seas and erosion

A new video game puts climate solution tools in the hands of up to 80 million Minecraft players

Purple may be a likely color for extraterrestrial organisms, research suggests

Fossils and stone tools show that a cave in Saudi Arabia has been used as shelter by humans for millennia, up to the present day

The state supreme courts in Florida and Arizona both recently ruled that strict abortion bans could go into effect. But ballot measures may give voters a chance to weigh in

Many researchers think that Wegovy and Ozempic should be taken for life, but myriad factors can force people off the drugs

Three types of misinformation are being used against transgender people: oversimplifying scientific knowledge, fabricating and misinterpreting research and promoting false equivalences

The telescope's studies could help end a long-standing disagreement over the rate of cosmic expansion. But scientists say more measurements are needed

Brain size in one Massachusetts community has steadily increased since the 1930s, possibly explaining why dementia is trending lower nationwide

Plants are just trying to reproduce; immune systems are just trying to keep us safe

Perspective and subtle motion allows us to peek over the moon’s edge and into its far side

Cows and at least one person in the U.S. have been sickened by avian influenza. We asked experts about the risk to humans.

Two medical devices that mechanically pump blood to the heart have caused hundreds of injuries and more than a dozen deaths

Scientists say extreme temperatures that reached 119 degrees Fahrenheit and killed at least 100 people in parts of West Africa would only occur every 200 years in the absence of climate change

Melba Phillips co-authored a paper with J. Robert Oppenheimer in 1935 that proved important in the development of nuclear physics. Later she became an outspoken critic of nuclear weapons

Fossilized vertebrae that were found in an Indian coal mine belonged to a gigantic and previously unknown snake species

Can you assign a size to every object? The surprising answer is no

A new report finds that AI matches or outperforms people at tasks such as competitive math and reading comprehension