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The search for alien life should consider the impact of cosmic rays, a new study suggests.

When scientists look for signs of life beyond Earth, first they check the extraterrestrial worlds inside the “Goldilocks zone” — the area around a star…

The Great Fall Bird Migration Has Already Begun—Here’s How to See It

By Kate Wong

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Orca moms teach their young how to pretend-drown each other, first-of-its-kind footage shows. The brutal training session teaches orcas the skills needed to kill the largest animal that has ever lived.

In the video, a young orca (Orcinus orca)…

As a professional gardener, there are certain bulbs I return to every year without fail. Take ‘Apricot Beauty’ tulips, for example. These pastel peach blooms have followed me from garden to garden during different placements working in the…

Scientists say they have at last solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion sea stars – often known as starfish – off the Pacific coast of North America in a decade-long epidemic.

Starting in 2013, a mysterious sea star

Hurricane season has a new contender, and it’s swirling above the poles.

Behold, the space hurricane. Just like its terrestrial namesake, it spins in vast spirals and has a calm, eye-like center. But instead of clouds and rain, these…

In a groundbreaking study published in Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, researchers have uncovered a curious biological boundary in the ocean that seems to separate two distinct types of jellyfish, despite their genetic…

When Hannah Cairo was 17 years old, she disproved the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, a long-standing guess in the field of harmonic analysis about how waves behave on curved surfaces. The conjecture was posed in the 1980s, and mathematicians had…