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A lawsuit challenging construction and operations of an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades known as 'Alligator Alley' has wrapped up with several key questions unanswered.

When more humans participate in a game of tug-o-war, each individual puts in less effort. But the opposite is true in weaver ants, according to new research in the journal Current Biology.

Inca society kept records by encoding information into knotted cords called khipu. A new analysis of hair woven into these cords suggests this record-keeping was practiced by commoners as well as elites.

A research team at the University of Texas at Austin's Cosmic Frontier Center have identified the oldest known supermassive black hole.

Scientists have long wondered about how the potato's genetic lineage came to be. Now they know: The plants are a cross between tomatoes and a plant known as Etuberosum.

Although "dog" is ubiquitous today to describe man's best friend, it remains a mystery where the word originally came from.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with astronomer David Jewitt about what we can learn from the third interstellar object to have entered our solar system, a comet-like object known as 3I/ATLAS.

The Perseid meteor shower has been active for weeks, and on Tuesday night, it's expected to peak. It should be the most active night to see meteors.

Dredging waterways for navigation is a centuries-old practice, but this project is controversial because the mud being dug out of the channel is put into other parts of Mobile Bay.

The Mojave Desert tortoise has long been considered a threatened species, but in June, California declared it endangered.