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Astronauts come home from long stays in orbit measurably taller than when they launched. The usual figure is…

Bear-proofing is starting to look like an arms race in Lake Tahoe, where black bears are increasingly…

There is a particular moment every July when the night sky makes perfect sense to me. Every time…

The Town of Middleburg moved into mandatory water conservation mode today amid continuing concerns about falling groundwater levels.…

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ICHIKAWA, Japan (AP) — Punch, the orphaned monkey at a Japanese zoo that stole many people’s hearts by…

Deep-sea scientists were amazed by the rare sight of a mother squid carrying her eggs through the ocean,…

North American beavers in sub-Antarctic Chile are doing more than flooding forests; they are turning riparian land into…

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The answer begins with a correction. Voyager 1 is beyond one important reach of the Sun, but not…

The house sparrow is probably one of the easiest birds to ignore. You see them everywhere. They hop…

The upcoming Dragonfly mission is unlike any planetary mission NASA has ever attempted. Instead of another slow-moving rover,…

In microgravity, the human spine lengthens by as much as five centimetres, and astronauts come home temporarily taller than when they left, before gravity compresses the column again within days of landing