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We typically imagine echolocation as “seeing” with sound—experiencing auditory signals as a world of images like the ones our ...

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By April 12, 2024—three days before the deadline for filing tax returns in the U.S.—more than a quarter of American taxpayers had yet to do so. Procrastination—delaying something despite an ...

GLP-1 drugs currently being tested in China target complications associated with obesity such as heart disease, fatty liver ...

And astronomers have a brand-new, superpowerful eye with which to see the changing cosmos: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in ...

Links to the U.S.’s most comprehensive climate reports—the National Climate Assessments—disappeared from the Internet on ...

To achieve its ambitious plans for missions to the moon and beyond, Russia needs other spacefaring nations as partners. But ...

Audible sound can affect gene activity in mouse cells, boosting the attachment of muscle precursors to surrounding tissue and ...

Microwave satellite data are key to capturing major changes in a hurricane’s strength, such as when a storm undergoes rapid ...