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The High SeasOlive HeffernanGreystone Books, $32.95 The ocean is a rich, fertile and seemingly lawless frontier. It’s a watery wild…

With terrifyingly sharp teeth arranged around a circular mouth, lampreys look about as primitive a vertebrate as you could imagine.…

To avoid becoming a meal, some animals simply fake it until they make it. And fake deaths with several unappealing…

At six months old, human infants are still working on sitting up by themselves. But baby orangutans at that age…

Mount Ontake in Japan rises 3,067 meters above sea level — a windswept giant standing head and shoulders above densely…

Dreams of exploring the cosmos have crashed up against the harsh reality of budget cuts in the United States. Congressional…

This backpack isn’t typical hiking gear. Look inside and instead of water and snacks, you’ll see swarms of mosquitoes.Molecular biologist…

Earth’s magnetic field protects life from harmful cosmic radiation. But sometime between about 590 million and 565 million years ago,…

How brainy was Tyrannosaurus rex? It depends on who you ask. Last year, the iconic Cretaceous dinosaur received the glow-up…

Citations K. Kim et al. Resting-state neural firing rate is linked to cardiac-cycle duration in the human cingulate and parahippocampal…

A flurry of reports about the genetics of the bird flu currently infecting U.S. cattle are offering insight into how…

Physiology of the phantom limb — Science News, May 11, 1974  Nearly everybody who has had a leg or arm…