The sound is sharp, spare and strange, a burst of clicks cutting through seawater. For years, researchers treated those sperm whale signals mostly as timing patterns, measuring pauses and rhythms the ...

Interspecies Internet sounds like the title of a science‑fiction film. But this initiative, also known as Interspecies.io, is real. The organization brings together scientists, technologists, artists, ...

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In a world of constant movement, Smith Island remains a beacon of community strength. Follow the journey of one man dedicated to keeping its legacy afloat amidst the tides of change.

A new report from scientists at Project CETI demonstrates that the noises that sperm whales make to communicate with each other contain what humans would describe as vowels. If you had to try to ...

Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) go deep. They can dive 1,300 to 4,000 feet-deep and also travel as much as 15,000 miles per year. These depths and distances make sperm whales and other whale ...

Science fiction is not monolithic. There are, in fact, two major sub-genres that divide sci-fi — hard sci-fi and speculative (or soft) sci-fi — and most of the time, the delineation between the two is ...

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What are records? Since 2014, The Marshall Project has been curating some of the best criminal justice reporting from around the web. In these records you will find the most recent and the most ...

Long Beach is moving forward with a housing development project on the former City Hall site, 321 W. Ocean Blvd., which has remained vacant for several years because of various delays, such as ...

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A Holocaust survivor who fled her home as a young child is sharing her story with a new generation on Long Island and students are making sure it is never forgotten. Gilda Zirinsky said she was just 4 ...