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This Christmas Bird Count, we salute the fabulous, underappreciated, common species. Here's to you, house sparrow.

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A boom in construction of AI data centers is facing backlash over soaring electricity and water usage, and the resulting ...

Indigenous and Western scientists are working together to uncover biodiversity in the icy deep. They’re getting some eight-armed help. An Pacific warty octopus mom fights off multiple crabs to protect ...

When cases of plague pop up in the US, it can feel straight up medieval. It's treatable, but how and why does it persist?

Over the past century, most cancer research has focused on the tumor itself. Rakesh Jain focused on the tumor's environment ...

The nature documentary series uses new research and photorealistic CGI to bring the huge, bizarre animals of the Ice Age back ...