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Humpback whale believed to be entangled for several months is finally freed in California
After a week of tracking and near-misses, a crew from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration freed a juvenile humpback whale Friday.
Science doesn’t yet support broad restrictions on teens’ access to social media, experts say
Social media also creates opportunities for exploitation and harassment that simply didn't exist before vast swaths of the population were connected by pocket-sized computers.
‘A very unexpected and rare event’: Massive asteroid flyby in 2029 offers unique opportunity
To be clear: The asteroid is not going to hit us. There was a while there when it seemed like it could. Suffice to say those were heady days in...
UCLA asks for the public’s help in finding signs of extraterrestrial intelligence
Imagine that you live alone in a dark, hilly wood that stretches for miles in all directions. You know your own forest well, having hiked and surveyed it as far...
Even after mild cases of COVID, long COVID symptoms can linger for a year or more
For some COVID-19 patients, the initial illness isn't nearly as bad as the persistent and sometimes disabling symptoms that linger for months or years afterward. These are the people with long COVID, a complex...
Toilet flushes release droplets, particles more than 5 feet above the seat, study finds: ‘It’s like a volcano erupting’
Engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder have confirmed what the germ-phobic among us have long suspected: The flush of a commercial toilet releases a Vesuvius-like cloud of tiny droplets...
Scientists’ big monkeypox fear: It will spread to wild animals and be here to stay
Maureen Miller, an infectious disease epidemiologist and medical anthropologist at Columbia University, was not surprised to learn this week that an Italian greyhound in Paris had become the first dog known to catch...