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At 3 a.m. on a crisp May night in Chile, all seemed well with the world’s largest digital camera. Until…

Even for the world’s largest carnivorous bat, a hug is the best hello. Spectral bats are far more cooperative than…

Nicole Spartano does not have diabetes. But the Boston University epidemiologist has occasionally worn a continuous glucose monitor, or CGM,…

Human breast tissue may be capable of hosting — and passing on — bird flu. Human mammary glands contain sugars…

Fifty years ago, “fractal” was born. In a 1975 book, the Polish-French-American mathematician Benoit B. Mandelbrot coined the term to…

The Shape of WonderAlan Lightman and Martin ReesPantheon, $28 One of my closest friends is a neuroscientist, investigating how brain…

The Haenyeo women who dive deep into the East China Sea to harvest sea urchins and shellfish spend the most…

This seabird poops on the fly. Streaked shearwaters, oceanic birds that spend much of their time out on the open…

Starting at least 2.6 million years ago, East African toolmakers became tech-savvy road warriors. Those hominids, perhaps early members of…

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