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'It is extremely rare to witness': Scientists record humpback whale mom grieving her stillborn calf in first-of-its-kind footage | Researchers captured footage of a female humpback whale repeatedly diving to make eye contact with her stillborn calf and lay next to its body on the seafloor.

Alcohol use has declined for the first time since Covid-19, with Gen Zers and millennials leading the charge

Astronomers Detect Radio Signals Coming Directly From an Exoplanet For The First Time | "We detect rapid, recurring, and highly circularly polarized bursts, as well as persistent emission, at frequencies of 0.85 to 3.5 GHz."

Interstellar solar sails hit a strange problem at 75% of light speed | Solar sails pushed by powerful lasers could reach incredible speeds, but relativity may eventually make the light itself work against them. At around 75% of the speed of light, scattered photons can begin creating drag.

Life uses 4 DNA letters. Scientists just made 8 work | Researchers at UC San Diego have demonstrated that a key cellular enzyme can read an 8-letter genetic alphabet. The finding brings scientists closer to building expanded genetic systems that could perform entirely new biological functions.

Scientists take major step toward building first elevator to space | A new super strong material could be the breakthrough needed to turn the century-old space dream into reality

Scientists Reveal What Could Happen if Yellowstone Erupted Now | A Yellowstone supereruption could set off a global survival crisis, with food shortages and damaged health systems extending the danger long after the initial blasts.

Fossilized eggs of the largest known dinosaurs have been unearthed in an unexpected place | "The most likely scenario is that these titanosaurs laid their eggs in mound nests made of vegetation and soil, where incubation heat came mostly from rotting plant material."

A shipping container falling off a cargo ship in 1992 spilled 28,000 rubber ducks and other bath toys into the Pacific, and oceanographers spent the next 20 years tracking where they washed ashore to map the world's ocean currents.

The extinct American 'cheetah' was not a cheetah after all | In a new study published in the journal Current Biology, researchers reveal that the extinct cat was more closely related to pumas. Some populations living near the Arctic preyed almost exclusively on fish.