Scientific American talked with Gabbott and Zalasiewicz, authors of the book Discarded: How Technofossils Will Be Our ...

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Holt, one of Magellan’s offshore managers, said the aim was to test the physical requirements and environmental impacts of ...

A colossal squid was filmed for the first time in its natural habitat near the South Sandwich Islands during a recent ...

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Republicans asked Congress’s watchdog to scrutinize offshore wind power’s effect on commercial fishing, marine navigation and ...

In just the first 259 days of data collection, KATRIN, a beta-decay-based detector in Germany, has set the smallest upper ...

The decades-long struggle to find a permanent place to dispose of nuclear waste in the U.S. will continue, probably for many ...

Some species seem to live fast and die young. Others, though, “appear not to age,” says João Pedro de Magalhães, a molecular ...