First StepsJeremy DeSilvaHarper, $27.99 No other animal moves the way we do. That’s awfully strange. Even among other two-legged species, none amble about with a…
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Efforts to promote equity and inclusion in science, technology, engineering and math have a long way to go, a new report suggests. Over the last…
Federal health officials in the United States are pressing pause on administering Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine following rare reports of blood clots in people…
Screams of joy appear to be easier for our brains to comprehend than screams of fear, a new study suggests. The results add a surprising…
As climate change brings more wildfires to the western United States, a rare fungal infection has also been on the rise. Valley fever is up…
A Magellanic penguin in Brazil ingested a face mask. A hedgehog in England got itself entangled in a glove. An octopus off the coast of…
Stony corals that build reefs have been hiding their diversity in plain sight. A genetic analysis of the most widespread reef coral in the Indo-Pacific…
Wind energy is surging in the United States. In 2020, turbines generated about 8 percent of the country’s electricity — roughly 50 times the share…
The under-ice trek of an autonomous underwater vehicle is giving scientists their first direct evidence for how and where warm ocean waters are threatening the…
The most oxygen-poor star-forming galaxy ever found hints that the first galaxies to arise after the universe’s birth glittered with supermassive stars that left behind…