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The news comes as the region's first dead gray whale of the year washed ashore in Marin County.

A live cam detailing the daily lives of these bald eagles has captivated thousands of viewers.

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has detected the largest organic (carbon-containing) molecules ever found on the red planet.

The first images captured by NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope showed tens of thousands of stars and galaxies.

Scientists must journey to remote islands in the middle of the Bering Sea, braving uncertain conditions, to reach the breeding grounds of McKay’s Buntings.

What makes matter stable? Why are atoms as they are? Why do different materials vary in their properties, such as electrical conductivity, density, melting temperature or light-absorption spectra?

Consumer Reports has no financial relationship with any advertisers on this site. With age, our brains change just as much as our bodies do — even if the shift isn’t always as noticeable. Brain volume decreases, for example, and neural connections may weaken.

A team of theoretical physicists has proposed a new way to test one of the most intriguing predictions of Einstein's theory of general relativity: gravitational memory.

That connection emerged several years ago in a series of conversations between myself, Jayson Stewart, and my grandfather Rudolf Schultz. My grandfather was an avid amateur sky gazer who kept a large reflector telescope in the foyer of his home, right by the entrance, ready for rapid deployment.

You have full access to this article via your institution. This month, two journals released data from their own experiments that suggest that offering payments of around USD$250 to researchers who review manuscripts speeds up the process, without affecting the quality of reviews.