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The U.S. Senate is holding a confirmation hearing today for wellness influencer Casey Means, the Trump administration’s pick for surgeon general

Discover what researchers have learned about polyamory, what misconceptions people have about such multipartner relationships and how individuals actually navigate them

A urinalysis shows that these apes ingest significant amounts of alcohol, providing new clues to how alcohol influences the animals’ behavior

These caterpillars rely on ants to tend them, and they use a surprisingly complex sense of rhythm to make it happen

Thunderstorms can generate weak electrical discharges on the plants underneath, but until now, they had never been observed in nature

One of the U.S.’s most decorated downhill skiers, Lindsey Vonn, revealed she almost had to have her leg amputated because of a life-threatening condition

The distinctive sound horses produce when they whinny is created by combining low- and high-pitched sounds together, like grunting and whistling at the same time

Since ancient Greece, researchers have tried to isolate special rational points on curves. Now they have the first ever formula that applies uniformly to all curves

A recent study found an unexpected benefit of female caribou antlers: they can function like a vitamin for deer that have just given birth

Fresh observations from the James Webb Space Telescope show how vivid auroras surge through Uranus’s tilted magnetic field

Blizzards are a real-life example of what game theorists call the “snowdrift problem,” a cousin of the prisoner’s dilemma that offers clues to why we choose to cooperate

Thousands of markings on objects made around 40,000 years ago may have been more than just doodles, a new analysis suggests