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Chemicals may be turning female birds into males in the wild and the phenomenon might be more common than we think.

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A new study from researchers at the University of Otago in New Zealand suggests that people who deliberately choose a ...

Fifty years on, Vietnam is still reckoning with the long-term ecological toll of U.S. warfare—a grim warning as Israel and ...

It’s not uncommon for scientists to find the occasional oddity in the middle of the North Pacific. But just North of Hawaii, ...