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Armed with dozens of motion-sensing cameras, William Grooms spent this past summer documenting wildlife across Carson National Forest in northern New Mexico. It was his first field season collecting ...

There are at least 14 million insect species on Earth, and they play highly diverse roles in sustaining the natural world.

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It took around 480,000 trucks to haul away 4.8 million metric tons (5.3 million tons) of rubble across western Jamaica after ...

Between September and November, these baby birds, also known as fledglings, learn to fly and eventually leave the nest. You ...

In a new Nature Physics study, researchers demonstrated the Aharonov-Bohm effect in a quantum simulation of a lattice gauge theory using a hybrid trapped-ion quantum computer.