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The United States and Canada took the top two spots at the championship.
May 1, 2025
Scientists have discovered that loggerhead sea turtles dance when they expect to find food.
April 24, 2025
Bit by bit, children are helping to restore the Brazilian Atlantic Forest and its ecosystem.
April 17, 2025
Scientists have created woolly mice in a lab as part of a project that aims to recreate an extinct animal called the woolly mammoth.
April 10, 2025
Scientists glued QR codes to bees to keep track of them and learned some surprising things.
March 27, 2025
Scientists are trying to find out why some people’s brains don’t make pictures of the objects they’re thinking of.
March 21, 2025
Fourteen-year-old Tina Jin won a top science prize for inventing a filter that makes water safe to drink.
March 14, 2025
A new study says intelligent life may be more likely to exist than we realized.
March 6, 2025
During World War II, Marion Pritchard risked her own safety to rescue and shelter Jewish families.
February 27, 2025
Scientists say two canyons on the far side of the Moon took about 10 minutes to form.
February 20, 2025
Inventor Innocent James created backpacks that use solar panels to make their own study lights.
February 13, 2025
An aquarium sunfish stopped eating, until workers realized what it needed.
February 6, 2025
In 1848, a Black man sued the city of Boston, Massachusetts, to let his daughter attend a whites-only school. What happened next?
January 30, 2025
In a recent study, people liked poetry written by artificial intelligence between than those written by humans.
January 23, 2025