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Female whale sharks rule the oceans, reaching average lengths of 14 metres.

As the November U.S. election approaches, anxiety is running high. There are fears of Russian meddling, breakdowns in the U.S. mail system, intense partisan rancor, voter suppression, fraud, and the logistics of enabling people to safely vote in the midst of a deadly pandemic.

In an about-face, CDC now recommends anyone who’s been in close contact with an infected person to be tested

The soil bacteria breathe through ‘giant snorkels’ made of a special conductive protein, the researchers found.

The Ig Nobel Prizes, an annual event celebrating quirky, comical discoveries, carried on despite the pandemic in a virtual ceremony riddled with bugs—and bug jokes. The Annals of Improbable Research, the science humor magazine that hosts the event, selected bugs as the theme for the 30th annual event, although the […]

Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation.

The kit, named CovidNudge, can give results without sending samples to a laboratory.

As always, weird science took center stage.