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The Oropouche virus, which some media outlets are calling a “sloth virus,” has been seen in European travelers returning home from the Americas.

An amateur fossil hunter in Mississippi found the first known fossil in the region from a mammoth — a well-preserved tusk that weighed about 600 pounds (270 kilograms).

A beautiful and rare “cotton candy” lobster caught in New Hampshire may be due to a combination of genetics and diet.

The Amazfit Balance is now 15% off at Amazon and the cheapest it has ever been.

Rat poison detected in around a third of wild mammal carnivores — including those that don’t normally eat rodents, such as mountain lions and gray wolves.

Chronic illnesses and the medications that treat them may make it harder to handle extreme heat. It’s even harder to study how.

Most people much prefer algorithms to make decisions about the redistribution of resources — but they see the outcomes of human-made decisions as more favorable.

Growing up in Nigeria, Sunday Agbonika always had a dog. One of these was a German shepherd named Skipper. Skipper did everything with his family, says Agbonika. But his experience was unusual. “[Pet] dogs weren’t such a thing in Nigeria…

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has found news clues in the longstanding mystery of why the sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona, is so much hotter than our star’s surface.

Squeaking metal can be grating on the nerves, but it serves an important purpose.