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His name is Neil the seal, and this year, he's gotten absolutely enormous - in size and in popularity.

We've all heard of menopause: a supposedly terminal moment for the female reproductive system, in which the ovaries stop releasing eggs and presumably call it a day.

In an arid world of ice and snow, a glacier is 'bleeding'.

Back in 2002, a massive earthquake in central Alaska was felt as far away as Seattle.

The Chernobyl exclusion zone may be off-limits to humans, but that doesn't mean every form of life finds the conditions inhospitable.

For more than 400 years, an oil painting titled Air by Flemish master Jan Brueghel the Elder has been hiding a scientific secret about bats and their nighttime feeding behavior - and we've only just spotted it.

A fossil that has been sitting in a drawer for 40 years has turned out to be the first piece of dinosaur ever retrieved from Antarctica.

The ability to focus is not unique to humans or even to primates.

A technique commonly used to prevent cancer might not be as effective as we thought - and a new study might have found the reason why.

NASA will soon attempt something it's never done before: Save a space telescope from falling back to Earth using a servicing robot.