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The funding agency aims to cap “indirect costs” in biomedical research grants. But this behind-the-scenes work is crucial to making research happen.

A humpback whale appeared to swallow then spit out a kayaker in a viral video filmed off the coast of Chile. But was he actually in any danger?

New research suggests that people who are exposed to higher levels of air pollution and extreme temperatures during pregnancy have longer pregnancies than people who are not exposed to these conditions.

Time-lapse video shows how a mushroom coral polyp pulses and inflates, flinging its soft body into micro-hops to slowly move itself to a new location.

Intel’s reference laptop design aims to cut e-waste and make computers you can easily repair.

Buried several miles beneath East Antarctica’s ice, Lake Vostok is one of the largest freshwater lakes on Earth, rivaling Lake Ontario in terms of size and volume.

Ariel Procaccia has always been fascinated by big questions and hard problems. As a teenager, one of his favorite books was Fermat’s Last Theorem. It tells the tale of how a single math puzzle stumped the world’s greatest minds for…

On this day 35 years ago, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft took a picture that changed how we see our planet. The iconic “Pale Blue Dot” image is just as awe-inspiring today.

Kissing is a multifaceted and emotionally loaded behavior. Do other animals do it, too?

Possibly the best device in the Surface range so far