We've been listening to the great outdoors from the comfort of our homes since the invention of the portable tape recorder.

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The bridge, expected to cost more than $15 billion, would stretch more than two miles across the Messina Strait ...

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Researchers may have a new tool in the fight to protect neotropical frogs from extinction, thanks to climate data.

This past June, researchers congregated at the Smithsonian Marine Station to catalogue the vast diversity of tiny animals ...

Benjamin first encountered the performance of electricity experiments on a trip to his childhood home in Boston in 1746.

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