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Which animal should scare you more?

Readers react to ancient hunting tactics, dog obesity and narwhal play

Cancer DNA is detectable in blood years before diagnosis

Want to eat healthier? Add to your diet, rather than limit it

50 years after ‘Jaws,’ sharks face their own terror

U.S. seal populations have rebounded — and so have their conflicts with humans

A Supreme Court ruling on nuclear waste spotlights U.S. storage woes

Summer is a great time to protect your hearing

Compare shark sizes on our infographic

‘Dragon Man’ skull may be the first from an enigmatic human cousin

This moth species may use the Milky Way as its guiding star

Baby’s First Words Crossword

How attacks on evolution in classrooms have shifted over the last 100 years

Is nuclear energy good? A new book explores this complex question

Fewer scavengers could mean more zoonotic disease

100 years after the Scopes trial, science is still under attack

Black hole–shredded megastars power a new class of cosmic explosions

A common parenting practice may be hindering teen development

This paint ‘sweats’ to keep your house cool

A genetic test may predict which weight loss drugs work best for patients

This spider’s barf is worse than its bite

At early ages, autism in girls and boys looks similar

Here’s how a collision of star remnants launches a gleaming jet

Rainbows of sound are a reality thanks to a new device

There’s no cheating this random number generator

How one mom is navigating vaccines’ uncertain future

A 43,000-year-old Neandertal fingerprint has been found in Spain

Climate change is coming for your cheese

How to get the biggest splash at the pool using science

FDA cuts imperil food safety, but not how you might think

A possible new dwarf planet skirts the solar system’s edge

A cup of chickpeas a day lowers cholesterol

A private Japanese spacecraft failed on its way to the moon’s surface

Preemptively cutting rhinos’ horns cuts poaching

Precolonial farmers thrived in one of North America’s coldest places

A diet full of tiny plastics triggered health problems in mice

Probiotics helped great star corals fend off a deadly disease

Small earthquakes can have a big impact on the movements of major faults

Flamingos create precise water vortices in a shrimp-hunting frenzy

Trees ‘remember’ times of water abundance and scarcity

Aussie cockatoos use their beaks and claws to turn on water fountains

Muons’ magnetism matches theory, easing an enduring physics conundrum

U.S. moms say their mental health is getting worse

A dwarf galaxy just might upend the Milky Way’s predicted demise

Lotions and perfumes affect the air near our skin

How luna moths grow extravagant wings

Venus’ tectonics may be actively reshaping its surface

Males of this ancient human cousin weren’t always bigger than females

Students’ mental health imperiled by $1 billion cuts to school funding

Genetics might save the rare, elusive saola — if it’s not already extinct