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Whale expert Eduardo Mercado proposes a groundbreaking theory about what singing whales are actually doing and argues that ...

An ambitious plan to sequence genomes for 1.85 million eukaryotic species on our planet is underway. It's a massive ...

Philip K. Dick is one of the most influential and lauded sci-fi writers, with his best works including Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Valis.

In the wake of Democrats' decision to end the government shutdown, Jon Stewart returns to his prediction that they were going to piss away last weeks hard-earned electoral victories. With ...

Newly dated fossils from New Mexico challenge the idea that dinosaurs were in decline—and suggest instead they had formed flourishing communities. Alamosaurus was one of the last dinosaurs from ...

Most scientific studies - even those with remarkable findings - have long had their wider appeal dimmed by unremarkable ...

While most superstitions are harmless, some are not. Alex Andreichuk, a travel adviser, has seen some that can interfere with ...

Climate change and rising authoritarian threats put our future at risk. Bill McKibben discusses his book Here Comes the Sun ...

The US auto market is changing fast and changing the buying habits and financial conditions of customers. The conventional ...

On November 6 in Wuhan, Hubei Province, a one-year-old boy noticed his grandmother squatting on the floor to feed him, so he ...

Implications matter. If there is ‘only’ a 0.000003% chance something would break, but that would bring down a plane, and there are 35 million flights yearly, that would cause 100 plane crashes a ...