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If there were to be a “best dad” award in the animal kingdom, seahorses would be a shoe-in. That’s because…

Laundry-listing facts rarely changes hearts and minds – unless a bot is doing the persuading. Briefly chatting with an AI…

The microbial toxin colibactin has just the right shape to snuggle up to DNA — but its embrace is unfortunately…

Let the record show: In 2025, one of paleontology’s oldest debates was settled. A second study in as many months…

An erupting volcano may have kicked off a chain of events that led to the swift dance of the Black…

Important, previously unrecognized genetic changes common to all ancient and modern Homo sapiens spread in Africa more than 300,000 years…

The house cat (Felis catus) slunk into China in the eighth century. But long before that, the ancient Chinese were…

On August 16, 2012, residents of the tiny Dutch village of Huizinge were rattled by an inexplicably large 3.6 magnitude…

Meghan Rosen is a senior writer who reports on the life sciences for Science News. She earned a Ph.D. in…

Major surgery takes a major toll on the body — not unlike running a marathon. You wouldn’t attempt a marathon…