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Sea spiders are marine anthropods that can grow as large as a dinner plate and breathe through hundreds of pores. The New York Times takes a deep dive into sea spider research, which is teaching scientists about climate change.

Ready, set, blast-off! Malou Nubla is entertained by the backyard shenanigans from Mr. Science.

Scientists from the University of Delaware create a test for ducks to discover the range of their hearing underwater. The information could be used to save ducks caught up in commercial fishing nets.

“Mini-brains” are minuscule organoids made from stem cells that mimic the behavior of the human brain. A team at Johns Hopkins University is using “mini-brains” to study the affects of the coronavirus on the brain without using animal research. Dr. Thomas Hartung of Johns Hopkins joined LX News to talk about what his team is learning from this research.

Research shows that acts of kindness make us feel better and healthier. Kindness is also key to how we evolved and survived as a species, scientists say. We are hard-wired to be kind.

NASA Astronauts Chris Cassidy and Robert Behnken are conducting a second space walk this week to work on battery upgrades at the International Space Station. The spacewalk is expected to last seven hours.

President Donald Trump’s comment about injecting disinfectant to fight coronavirus is just the latest in a long list of comments and actions that run contrary to mainstream science

A big picture look at global insect decline shows land bugs are disappearing at a rate of nearly 1% a year

A gaping spread in statistical models for the coronavirus pandemic has injected a political element into the scientific endeavor

A supermoon rose above the sky on Tuesday. It was the first in a string of supermoons this year. The next supermoon will occur in May.

President Trump says he has talked to a lot of people and thinks the morbidity rate of Coronavirus is “false”.

NASA Astronaut Christina Koch returned to Earth Thursday, landing in Kazkhstan after wrapping up her record-setting 328-day mission in space.

Thousands of gray whales have begun their annual migration down the West Coast, and after a record number of them died during the journey last year scientists are keeping close count.

How we take care of our bodies, minds and health evolves over time for a number of reasons. While some of those changes get forgotten (like low-fat everything and shake weights, thank goodness), some health trends gain attention because there’s science behind them and we’re better off for adopting them. Here are a few such wellness trends that came into vogue...

People in parts of Southern Asia caught a glimpse of a “ring of fire” solar eclipse Thursday.

Boeing safely landed its crew capsule in the New Mexico desert Sunday after an aborted flight to the International Space Station that threatened to set back the company’s effort to launch astronauts for NASA next year. The Starliner descended into the Army’s White Sands Missile Range in the frigid predawn darkness, ending a two-day demo that should have lasted...

Researchers from Texas A&M and the University of Washington are planning to study a slowed aging process pill on dogs.

The Western Science Center in Riverside County announced the discovery of a new species of an ice age era mastodon during a news conference Wednesday.

Nearly 200,000 people live, work or pass through California’s volcanic hazard zones on a daily basis, researchers said Monday in a report broadly assessing what could be at risk from an eruption.