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A paleontologist was trying to locate the site of a famous 1908 discovery when a rancher in Wyoming shared an important clue.

GREAT BARRINGTON — A scientist who once bucked pandemic policy told a Senate panel on Wednesday that the National Institutes of Health is the “crown jewel” of biomedical research and medical ...

One of the scientists involved in tracking Contender – the biggest great white shark ever recorded by researchers in the Atlantic – has revealed how to escape a close encounter. Contender, the 14-foot ...

The Great Lakes owe their existence to a hotspot that was active hundreds of millions of years ago, according to new research. This Cape Verde hotspot currently sits beneath the island nation in the ...

Scientists are sounding an alarm after a new study finds coral reef temperatures have reached their highest in at least four centuries, per an article published in the New York Times. According to the ...

Young children have a lot of trust in scientists, and watching superhero TV shows with villainous researchers has little ...

Her discoveries as a primatologist in the 1960s about how chimpanzees behave in the wild were hailed as “one of the Western world’s great scientific achievements.” via Jane Goodall InstituteCredit ...

Tossed the softest of softball questions, William Katzman, vice president for exhibits at the Great Lakes Science Center, can’t resist the joke. Why is the soon-to-open traveling exhibition “Super ...