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Interruptions, to-do lists, lack of autonomy — “time poverty” depends more on perceived shortages of time than actual ones, recent research suggests.

An analysis of mining plumes in the Pacific Ocean reveals they kick up particles sized similarly to the more nutritious tidbits that plankton eat.

The grisly infrared camera footage records a never-before-seen hunting tactic. It may have implications for bat conservation.

Some of the earliest images ever taken in the wake of massive star’s death give astronomers important clues about what triggers a supernova.

After a decades-long hiatus, new world screwworm populations have surged in Central America and Mexico — and are inching northward.

Some “clicks” made by sperm whales may actually be “clacks,” but marine biologists debate what, if anything, that means.

A child-friendly brain imaging technique is just one way neuroscientist Cat Camacho investigates how children learn to process emotions.

President Trump has argued the U.S. should test nuclear weapons because other countries are doing it. But scientific data suggest they’re not.

Streams of liquid form drops thanks to unidentified disturbances. It could be the jiggling of individual molecules.

No, aliens had nothing to do with a winding 1.5-kilometer-long path of holes. First used as a market, the Inca then repurposed it for tax collection.