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By studying the natural world, scientists find blueprints for innovations that can improve human lives—in the genes of a ...

Findings from the largest-ever survey of endangered flat-headed cats may help change the species’ official conservation ...

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Researchers suspect that dark-eyed juncos living in Los Angeles adapted based on the availability of food scraps tossed by ...

This steamer trunk formerly belonged to Anastacio Atig Omandam, a worker who arrived in Honolulu from the Philippine province ...

Species with thinner protective barriers may need fewer resources and tend to have a greater ability to adapt to new habitats ...

The year's most exciting discoveries included the site where a young George Washington stopped a friendly fire incident, the ...

The artwork by illustrator Tom Jung, which brought in $3.9 million, features Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker and other characters in scenes from the 1977 film European starlings were better than parrots ...

The magazine’s most-read articles of the year included a deep dive on the Scopes "monkey trial," an interview with ...

Some onlookers are interpreting the identical artworks, which appeared on the streets of London, as a commentary on ...

The hormone estrogen—which female animals typically have more of than males—triggers a molecular cascade in the gut that ...