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H5N1 has infected 66 people in the United States since early 2024, mostly causing mild illness. A Louisiana man was the first to get severely sick.

A canine baculum (penis bone) covered in red ochre may be from a long-lost Romano-British ritual.

Shark sex is a bitey business, with males grasping females with their teeth during the act. The resulting wounds are helping scientists to figure out when and where sharks are doing the deed.

Photos from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed more than 40 stars within the gravitationally lensed “Dragon Arc” galaxy, 6.5 billion light-years from Earth. It is the largest group of individually imaged stars ever seen at such a distance.

A huge magnitude 7.1 earthquake has hit the holy city of Shigatse, or Xigazê, in the autonomous region of Tibet in China.

The Python Rangemaster boasts Alpha glass quality with anti-reflective coatings on its lenses. Its BAK4 barium-coated roof prisms produce high-quality images for various viewing activities.

Deformed scales in hatchlings and biomarkers indicative of disease progression are two health impacts on turtles at PFAS-polluted sites in Australia.

The International Space Station, or ISS, is one of humanity’s most remote outposts. Space agencies around the world teamed up in the 1980s and 1990s to construct this distant laboratory. Pieces of the station were built in different countries and…

Sophia Zhang is on a mission to solve an environmental crisis in her home state of Utah. The Great Salt Lake has been shrinking for decades, largely due to excess water use and climate change. Since learning about this problem…

This 2014 satellite photo shows Pakistan’s Khor Kalmat tidal lagoon brimming with water at the heart of an arid desert. This fluctuating body of water, which looks like “ink bleeding onto parchment,” helps support life in this harsh environment.