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The High Seas Treaty, which would allow nations to create marine protected areas in international waters, is now expected to ...
It’s all part of Little Critters: Nature Play, a free drop-in program where children ages 0–5 explore science and nature ...
New research suggests long-billed curlews keep an ear out for warnings from prairie dogs in order to hide from predators and protect their nests ...
Armed with a tape recorder and open ears, Tony Schwartz turned everyday noise into lasting art. Now, his recordings live on at Smithsonian Folkways, where they continue to inspire new ways of ...
Researchers could identify people with almost 97 percent accuracy based on 24 hours of their recorded breathing patterns, and ...
A century before LaCroix or Spindrift were refrigerator staples, factories in New York City were carbonating gallons and ...
A new exhibition spotlights Natalia Pavlovna Paley, the granddaughter of a czar. She built a new life for herself in France ...
Two partial skeletons housed in a Mongolia museum were reexamined by researchers and found to represent a previously unknown ...
A three-foot-long Antarctic gonate squid was spotted swimming 7,000 feet below the surface of the Southern Ocean ...
The animals that plummeted 85 feet into Wyoming’s Natural Trap Cave provide a layered history of life dating back to the ...
Showcasing the Romantic artist's early innovations with oil paint, "The Rising Squall" could fetch up to $400,000. Before it ...
Land managers and other authorities are ramping up efforts to trap and kill the destructive, non-native animals ...