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Scientists Find 20 Million-Year-Old Giant Predatory Nightmare Worm
Trace fossils reveal an “life and death struggle between predator and prey” that played in what is now Taiwan.
White House Website Recognizes Climate Change Is Real Again
The Biden administration updated the official White House website with information about the climate crisis.
Biden Will Rejoin Paris Accord and Halt Arctic Drilling on First Day in Office
The new president plans to sign “a historic number of actions” on day one of his presidency, including canceling the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline.
Scientists Have Finally Found a Dinosaur's Butthole, and It's Pooping
Scientists were able to describe the cloaca, which included a fossilized piece of dinosaur poo, in detail for the first time.
This Musician Makes Songs From Outer Space Data
Matt Russo, a musician and lecturer at the University of Toronto, converts astronomical data into musical compositions on his website, SYSTEM Sounds.
2020 Tied 2016 for the Hottest Year on Record, NASA and NOAA Say
2020 and 2016 were both terrible for another reason: rising temperatures driven by climate change that are having devastating effects, officials announced.
Captive Gorillas Have Caught Coronavirus at a Zoo
Several gorillas at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park are coughing, officials said, after an asymptomatic staff member is believed to have infected the animals.
The UK Is Developing Nuclear-Powered Space Exploration for Faster Mars Trips
The UK Space Agency and Rolls-Royce are teaming up to hopefully get humankind deeper into space.
Scientists Found a Raging Galactic Core From Near the Beginning of Time
The active galactic nucleus is powered by a supermassive black hole and was spotted just 670 million years after the Big Bang, making it the most distant quasar ever discovered.
Scientists May Have Detected a Signal That Could Change Astronomy Forever
Scientists think they may have spied the universe's "gravitational wave background" after more than a decade of searching.
Manatee With ‘Trump’ Etched Into Back Sparks Federal Investigation
A marine scientist said the incident was “one of the most horrifying things I have ever seen done to a wild animal."
Scientists Find More Evidence That Galaxies Are Synced Up In a 'Cosmic Web'
The oddly coherent motion of small satellite galaxies is challenging our accepted model of the universe.