A combination of habitat loss, pesticide use and climate change may be behind the dramatic three-decade decline
DeepMind's AlphaGo Zero taught itself how to play Go, becoming the greatest player in history in just 40 days
A WWF official described it as "Tarantino does Happy Feet"
The plant's operators hope to halt the warming of the Earth, but many challenges remain for the plan to work on a large scale
The 16 award-winning images range from whimsical birds to the tragic aftermath of a poaching raid
A new study comparing eruptions and uprisings looks at how volcanoes meddle with annual Nile floods
Contrary to popular belief, domestication has made dogs less likely to cooperate to get food than wolves
In a year of crazy weather, the remnants of the massive storm headed toward the British Isles
His 17th-century text is still in print today
By fusing its chromosomes, the creature could essentially clone itself while still maintaining genetic variation
Mae Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, wants us to look beyond Earth
Genes for both light and dark pigmentation have been in the human gene pool for at least 900,000 years
The chirp and flash from the event offers clues to the origin of Earth's precious metals
Until now, researchers haven't been able to map half of the galaxy we call home
But don't start digging through the country's sewer sludge just yet
These holes are thought to be crucial elements of the currents driving the world's oceans, and after 40 years, one has formed again
The elusive kittens were documented sitting under a bush in the Moroccan Sahara last April
Joe Jutras' 2118-pound squash makes him the first person to earn the record for largest pumpkin, longest gourd and heaviest squash
Still in its trial run, the China's FAST radio telescope has already identified two new pulsars and perhaps a dozen more
Alfred Nobel–yes, that Nobel–commercialized it, but inventor Asciano Sobrero thought nitroglycerin was too destructive to be useful
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