She approached chimps as she did people: on their own terms. By Sam Anderson ...

Thank God we finally have a straight female singer-songwriter,” executives from Atlantic Records told Jill Sobule after ...

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They say every generation thinks it's the end of the world. But the Santa Cruz long-toed salamander has been staring at oblivion since 1967 That’s the year the amphibian was listed under the ...

New research from Public Interest Research Group and tests conducted by NBC News found that a wide range of AI toys have ...

Born JoAnne Deborah Byron in 1947 into a family of strivers in Queens, she split her time between her mother’s home in New ...

He peered into the darkest corners of humanity and remained an optimist. By Jonathan Mahler ...

We’ve all had that itchy, edgy feeling, that urge to be doing something—anything— other than what we’re doing right now. It’s boredom, and it’s awful. As ubiquitous as the experience is, only recently ...

A first-ever analysis of the whole Greenland shark genome gives researchers a couple of clues to their longevity. When this Greenland shark was born, Leonardo painted the Mona Lisa. The species is the ...

Some were the size of a dog. Others were as large as polar bears. A newly-discovered fossil of the ferocious hyaenodont is helping scientists understand a little bit more about the mysterious ...

Webs can be decorated with decoys, fine-tuned like guitars—and hold secrets about evolution. A Cyclosa spider is camouflaged on a web with debris attached to make itself less visible at the Los Amigos ...