Scientists found a free-living coral species actively travels toward blue light resembling its natural habitat and moves like a jellyfish to migrate.

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An inflation gauge closely watched by the Federal Reserve rose slightly last month, the latest sign that some consumer prices remain stubbornly elevated, even as inflation is cooling in fits and ...

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It’s their own private sign. “There are so many words or gestures or things that are almost like inside jokes, that only have a meaning with just one other person,” said Bas van Boekholt ...

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In hearings Wednesday and Thursday, senators questioned President Trump's nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., over his fitness to be the country's top health ...

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