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Living with the reality of the climate crisis is hard. Doing so while contemplating having kids … can be even harder. So we asked climate experts:…

Happy Memorial Day, Short Wavers! This holiday, we bring you a meditation on time … and clocks. There are hundreds of atomic clocks in orbit right…

The Egyptian cobra (Naja haje) is a lethal venomous snake native to Africa. Its bite is one of multiple that could be treated with a new…

Judges and magistrates in England and Wales will be told to move away from handing out short custodial sentences in favour of community-based alternatives in a…

Cuts to NOAA may make it more difficult to predict flooding and other weather-related disasters; cuts to FEMA are curtailing communities’ ability to respond to those…

According to physicist Ron Gamble, there is a non-zero chance that scientists could find a wormhole. KTSDESIGN/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption KTSDESIGN/SCIENCE PHOTO…

Portugal’s ruling centre-right Democratic Alliance (AD) is poised to win the most votes in an early parliamentary election, but is short of a full majority, exit…

A fringe-lipped bat preys on a túngara frog in Panama. Photo by Marcos Guerra hide caption toggle caption Photo by Marcos Guerra A fringe-lipped bat preys…

Approximately 80% of orange cats are male. But why? Rebecca Ramirez/NPR hide caption toggle caption Rebecca Ramirez/NPR Approximately 80% of orange cats are male. But why?…