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This year’s overall winner, titled Mesmerizing spider threads, is by Dr. Martin Ramirez, a research scientist for CONICET ...

On a sultry evening in Brisbane, a floodlit Gabba turned into Headingley on a sunny June afternoon as someone draped a Yorkshire flag over one of the advertising boards and cries of “Rooot” rang out ...

Discover Lycodon irwini, a newly identified jet-black wolf snake from India’s Great Nicobar Island, named in honor of Steve ...

Astronomers, ecologists, and other scientists from around the world submitted mind-bending images representing their fields.

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The American-built F-111 Aardvark became an unlikely Australian icon. -Adopted by the RAAF in the 1970s and nicknamed the ...

Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. You can also read Drew over at SFGATE, and buy Drew’s books while you’re at it. Today, we’re talking ...