A new book describes how effects of climate change, like intense flooding from 2019’s Typhoon Hagibis, have changed sports ...
In “Wild Life,” Dr. Rae Wynn Grant tells the story of her first days tagging and tracking black bears for her PhD. The ...
As corals around the world bleach at alarming rates, scientists are racing to preserve a string of remarkable reefs in the ...
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Credit: Shutterstock Imani Black and Dr. Tara Scully with Ira on stage in Washington D.C. Credit: The George Washington University The Chesapeake Bay produces around 500 million pounds of seafood ...
Springtime is a great reminder of just how beautiful trees can be. Cherry blossoms and magnolias put on a gorgeous show, but trees aren’t just there to look good. They play an important role in ...
All day long we’re taking in information and forming memories. Some stick around, others quickly fade away. But how does your brain push those memories into long term storage? And how does our brain ...
Research on medical uses for artificial intelligence in medicine is exploding, with scientists exploring methods like using the retina to predict disease onset. That’s one example of a growing body of ...
When a critter meets its end at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo, it ends up on a necropsy table—where one of the zoo’s veterinary pathologists will take a very close look at it, in what is the animal ...
After months of excitement, the 2024 total solar eclipse is almost here! On Monday, April 8, the moon will line up perfectly between the Sun and the Earth. For a few short minutes, it’ll plunge parts ...
Patient Rick Slayman getting ready to leave Massachusetts General Hospital after his kidney transplant. Credit: Michelle Rose/Massachusetts General Hospital Last month, Massachusetts General Hospital ...
Two cicada broods on 13- and 17-year cycles coincide this spring, meaning trillions of buzzing insects across the South and ...