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10:01 AM on Tuesday, June 16

Nine scholars from around the world have been awarded $300,000 each to advance their careers

7:39 AM on Tuesday, June 16

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 has shaken eastern Japan including Tokyo

4:19 PM on Monday, June 15

A fisherman in Massachusetts reeled in and released a nine-foot white shark

11:07 AM on Monday, June 15

A Wisconsin beagle research facility that’s drawn animal welfare protests is closing and its remaining dogs are being taken in by a Florida rescue group

7:49 AM on Monday, June 15

Lawmakers are demanding the National Science Foundation stop dismantling the Ocean Observatories Initiative, a $386 million ocean monitoring network being wound down under President Donald Trump's administration

7:41 AM on Monday, June 15

5:01 AM on Friday, June 12

A coalition of renewable energy groups is suing Pentagon officials over their failure to complete national security reviews for new onshore wind farms on private lands

1:46 AM on Friday, June 12

Philippine officials say that years of disaster-preparedness drills helped prevent a larger casualty toll when one of the strongest earthquakes in 50 years struck the south

11:13 AM on Thursday, June 11

Brazilian officials have announced a significant drop in deforestation rates

10:05 AM on Thursday, June 11

8:00 PM on Wednesday, June 10

A reactor at the world’s largest nuclear power plant in Japan has resumed operations

1:28 PM on Wednesday, June 10

New research shows that extreme floods in coastal areas are becoming more common as climate change causes sea levels to rise

10:02 AM on Wednesday, June 10

Scientists have unearthed marine communities thriving on a millions-year-old whale graveyard

10:00 AM on Wednesday, June 10

A massive underground detector aimed at understanding the mysterious ghost particles in our universe has released its first major findings

5:00 AM on Wednesday, June 10

11:45 AM on Tuesday, June 9

NASA has revealed the crew for its Artemis III mission, the next step in eventually landing astronauts on the moon

6:00 AM on Tuesday, June 9

4:52 PM on Monday, June 8

OpenAI has filed preliminary paperwork to potentially become a publicly traded company

8:58 AM on Monday, June 8

Three more cases of the New World screwworm have been confirmed, including one outside Texas, demonstrating the difficulty of stopping a pest that could potentially devastate the nation’s cattle industry

7:13 PM on Sunday, June 7

A powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake has rocked the southern Philippines, killing at least 35 people