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Some creative calculations using bug traps, epidemiology and trees suggest there are some 20 million unique insect species on ...

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A study in Costa Rica has big implications for extinction and conservation.

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If you are in your early 60s and staring at the Social Security claim button on SSA.gov, the most expensive mistake you can make is treating that decision like a stock trade. I’ve been covering ...

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Benji Jones is a senior environmental correspondent at Vox, covering biodiversity loss and climate change. Before joining Vox, he was a senior energy reporter at Business Insider. Benji previously ...

Anonymous Content manager Kassie Evashevski helped Shelby Van Pelt's novel make it to the screen: "It was one of the few things at the time that I read that made me just feel good." By Ryan Gajewski ...

Spoiler alert: This article contains spoilers for the book and movie adaptation of “Remarkably Bright Creatures.” “Remarkably Bright Creatures” gave booklovers a dose of hope and comfort when it ...

For the most part, the octopus featured in Netflix’s Remarkably Bright Creatures movie—which began streaming today—is CGI. “There was no way we were going to be able to train an octopus to do all the ...

Omniscient narration from a wise octopus voiced by Alfred Molina makes about as much sense as anything else in this cluttered, sentimental tale of small-town intrigue and human connection. If that ...