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Last month, chemist Nancy Goroff failed to unseat Representative Lee Zeldin (R–NY) and become the first female science Ph.D. in the U.S. Congress. But the 52-year-old Democrat is still hoping national politics will loom large in her future.

The birth of these babies brought hope for a critically endangered whale species.

New research tracked the canines in northern Minnesota for years to see just how they reshape their ecosystems.

Sit! Stay! Fetch! Map a Martian cave!

No, a dog didn’t write this.

A study of adults learning a new language found that speaking primarily activated regions in the left side of the brain but reading and listening comprehension were much more variable.

China’s Chang’e-5 mission made a triumphant return around 1 p.m. EST today, landing in the middle of the night on the dark frozen plains of Inner Mongolia, Chinese state media reported. The capsule’s return marks the first time China has collected rocks from the Moon—and the first time any nation […]

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These newly-discovered orbs are more than 45,000 light-years wide — but what created them?