Columnist Pat Beall says goodbye to 2025, a year when the rapacious greed, fat-injected lips and oddly hued skin of our ...

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Whales eat a lot of food. In recent years, experts have estimated that the world’s biggest whales eat between 10 and 20 tons of food a day: the caloric equivalent of 70 to 80 thousand “Big Macs.” ...

Drones have been used to successfully collect samples from the exhaled breath—or "blow"—from wild humpback, sperm and fin whales in northern Norway, hailing a new era of non-invasive health monitoring ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. If you’re of a certain generation, you might be able to trace your affinity for orcas to ...

We could all use a buddy to help us track down dinner from time to time. Sarah Fortune, a marine ecologist at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, and her colleagues used drones and camera-equipped ...

SAN DIEGO — As holiday package thefts surge, videos of booby-trapped deliveries are trending on social media, but attorneys are cautioning consumers that retaliating against porch pirates could result ...

EUSTIS, Fla. — A jewelry and gemstone business blew up in downtown Eustis on Thursday after crews repaired a gas leak outside the store. Fire Chief Michael Swanson said crews doing road work had found ...

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One person is dead after a U-Haul truck explosion early Saturday morning, authorities said. The blast happened around 7:15 a.m. in the parking lot of an Old Navy store in Lewiston, Idaho, just across ...

ASHLAND — A natural-gas line accidentally cut Thursday morning — and in the process of being repaired by utility crews for some two hours — instead violently exploded, hospitalizing six people and ...