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The Office of Management and Budget has proposed rule changes to insert a political review step into the scientific ...

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As NASA prepares for long-term moon bases, scientists are working on how to grow food in lunar soil and deal with razor-sharp ...

The chlorine in swimming pools reacts with our urine and sweat, producing volatile chemicals that are potentially harmful to ...

Ancient squirrel poop provides a snapshot of life during the last ice age. And, how different types of laughter originate in ...

Known since Aristotle, no one understood the argonaut octopus—until a 19th-century seamstress turned naturalist took it upon herself to solve its mysteries. A greater argonaut (Argonauta argo) ...

If you have arachnophobia, consider this your opportunity to try exposure therapy: A new study suggests that 415 million years ago, in modern-day England and Wales, a scorpion the length of a golden ...

The first two butterflies in this display show a normal male and female. All the others are gynandromorphs, revealing a mix of male and female patterning. Image by Nipam Patel This is no ordinary ...

The following is an excerpt from “Compost After Reading: A Practical Manifesto for Purposeful Decomposition” by Cassandra Marketos. When you purchase products through the Bookshop.org link on this ...