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The Bronx Zoo is celebrating 15 years of its extremely popular Valentine’s Day “Name a Roach” program

Avian enthusiasts around the world will identify and count birds from February 13 through February 16 as part of a massive community science project

Why the simple act of kissing—which can be traced back 21.5 million years—continues to confound evolutionary biologists

LLMs have recently helped find solutions to a number of minor longstanding problems. But a new plan called First Proof is really putting them to the test

An intrepid team of scientists has created “Smart Underwear” to measure human flatulence in a bid to better understand our farts

The EPA has scrapped a rule stating that climate change harms human health. Here’s what that could mean

Four worlds around a small, dim star are challenging theories of planet formation

A “disappearing” star in the Andromeda galaxy is the closest and best candidate for a newborn black hole that astronomers have ever seen

Pachyderm whiskers are more flexible at the tip than at the base, allowing elephants to complete delicate tasks with their incredibly strong trunk

From Schenectady, N.Y., to the University of Cambridge, Katharine Burr Blodgett’s brilliance impressed the world’s leading physicists

The Trump administration rescinded the 2009 “endangerment finding,” ending regulation of greenhouse gases from cars and trucks

A scandal involving allegedly enlarged ski suits ahead of this year’s Winter Olympics has highlighted the intriguing physics behind ski jumps