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For as long as I can remember, I've wanted to learn Japanese. Linguists often say that the best way to learn a foreign language is to immerse yourself in it, and that's what I did. For a while, I put post-it notes on ite...

Sex among primates and certain mammals is thought to provide pleasure for the participants. But for many animal species, sex is anything but pleasant.

(Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University) Larval dispersal from hydrothermal vent fields quantified in order to understand and protect the creatures found there.

Scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope found dozens of stars within a cluster called R136, each at least 50 times more massive than the sun, and including nine that harbor more than 100 solar masses.