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For nine months, a scientific expedition searched for blue whales in the waters around the Galápagos Islands but found none. Between October 2025 and July 2026, the researchers surveyed areas of the Ecuadorian archipelago where the giants had historically been recorded, hoping to attach satellite tags and learn more about the animals' migratory routes. The search ended with...

For decades, psychiatrists and other mental health professionals have used the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders," or DSM, to diagnose patients with conditions such as major depression, anorexia and post-traumatic stress disorder (

In space, nobody can hear you scream — or meow, for that matter. This was as true for Félicette — the stray Parisian tuxedo cat who safely completed the world's first (and only) suborbital feline flight, in 1963 — as it is for th...

Each year, Earth's Northern and Southern hemispheres cycle through four seasons, including summer.

Given that the hemispheres are symmetric about the equator, you may think that, on both sides of the world, summers should be similar – both in terms of their climate and factors like their length. But are Northern and Southern hemisphere summers really the same?

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