Inside the growing scientific quest to understand what creatures with the extraordinary ability to defy the ravages of time can teach us about making human aging better.

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The Bone Museum is tucked away in Brooklyn, quietly educating visitors about skeletal anatomy while the rest of the city goes about its business completely unaware. Glass cases filled with skulls ...

The stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud aren’t behaving the way they should. A cataclysmic collision with another nearby ...

A lot of people write about what they see, but scientists have a uniquely effective way to observe the world and develop ...

In biology and palaeontology (the study of extinct organisms) there are a few ways to estimate the age of an animal’s skeleton. One is the extent of fusion of sutures in the skeleton – how much the ...

Science Textbook Controversies “In 1969 the California Board of Education issued new guidelines for the biology curriculum of the state’s public schools. The guidelines ...

Animals come in an extraordinary range of body shapes. A starfish looks nothing like an earthworm, a mouse, or a human. Yet even closely related species can appear radically different: corals, ...

A bizarre, ultra-light planet is cloaked in such a thick haze that even JWST can’t reveal its composition. Its unusual size and orbit are forcing scientists to rethink how planets form.

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Global growth is projected at 3.0 percent for 2025 and 3.1 percent in 2026, an upward revision from the April 2025 World Economic Outlook. This reflects front-loading ahead of tariffs, lower effective ...