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More than 200 attacks by orcas against vessels have been recorded along Portugal and Spain's Iberian Peninsula since 2020, according to local media.

PFAS are nicknamed "forever chemicals" because they last so long without breaking down. That's made them pervasive in rainwater and soils.

NASA spent 17 years and about $50 billion building a new launch system to return astronauts to the moon. It's flying for the first time this month.

In the month since the space telescope released its first batch of images, it's deluged astronomers with observations of distant cosmic objects.

By cutting greenhouse-gas emissions and funding a new climate plan, the Inflation Reduction Act promises to help your wallet, health, and security.

One clip from inside Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino showed card tables being soaked as water fell from the ceiling.

NASA says the Perseids fireballs are the best meteor shower. The supermoon may outshine them, but you can still see both spectacles.

NASA suspects spaghetti-like debris captured by Perseverance's cameras in July is shredded Dacron netting from gear that landed the rover on Mars.

Kim Yo Jong said Kim Jong Un was very unwell with a "high fever." North Korea often refers to COVID-19 as a "fever."

As the world warms due to climate change, glaciers in the Swiss Alps are thawing, especially in the summer.

Scientists analyzed the video footage and concluded that the sponge's sneezing mechanism ejects material it can't use for food.

A 60-year-old woman, who was declared brain dead after suffering an intracranial hemorrhage, gave new lease of life to at least four persons after her family members agreed to organ donation at Gurugram's Paras Hospital, an official said on Tuesday.

Sea turtles' sex is influenced by the temperature of the sand before they hatch, and the beaches in Florida have been getting hotter.

A team from Rowan University found teeth, femurs, and more belonging to Hessian soldiers dating back to the 1777 Battle of Red Bank in New Jersey.

A new museum is opening to display the finds from the 366-year-old Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas wreck in the Bahamas.

A Turkish and Mongolian excavation team says swastika patterns on 13th-century ruins are a possible link to Genghis Khan's grandson, reports Live Science.

China's rocket booster fell to Earth uncontrolled, and new photos convinced space-debris experts that it rained rocket parts across Southeast Asia.

"What is striking, and perhaps the most important takeaway, is that these heat effects are permanent," Ariel Ortiz-Bobea told Insider.

Spacecraft and debris fall out of orbit and back to Earth every day. Much of it burns up in the atmosphere, but some crashes to the ground.

The "embryos" grew placentas and organs and could be used for research. We're still a long way before we can make humans embryos that way.

Scientists in Israel have grown synthetic embryo models of mice outside the womb by starting solely with stem cells cultured in a petri dish - that is, without the use of fertilised eggs.

Revival of pig tissue could pave the way for salvaging more human organs for transplant, and even bringing people back to life hours after death.