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FILE – This photo provided by NASA shows a meteor from the Orionid shower on Oct. 13, 2015. (Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA via AP, File)

How to watch the Orionid meteor shower, which is caused by debris of Halley’s comet

October 20, 2025 at 10:10 p.m.

The Orionids will peak with the arrival of a new moon, providing an excellent opportunity to see shooting stars without interference from moonlight.

Nurse Rod Salaysay plays guitar for patient Richard Hoang in the recovery unit of UC San Diego Health in San Diego, Calif., on Sept. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Javier Arciga)

Music could help ease pain from surgery or illness. Scientists are listening.

October 18, 2025 at 4:57 p.m.

Over the past two decades, live performances and recorded music have flowed into hospitals and doctors’ offices as research grows on how songs can help ease pain.

In this photo provided by the Hakai Institute, researcher Alyssa Gehman from the Hakai Institute counts and measures sunflower sea stars in the Burke Channel on the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada, in 2023. (Bennett Whitnell/Hakai Institute via AP)

Scientists say they have solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion sea stars

August 4, 2025 at 8:19 p.m.

Scientists say they have at last solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion sea stars off the Pacific coast of North America in a decade-long epidemic.

This photo provided by researchers shows a young green sea turtle released with a satellite tag swimming in sargassum seaweed offshore of Venice, La., on June 2, 2015. The photo was made with protected species permit NMFS 19508. (Gustavo Stahelin via AP)

Scientists solve the mystery of sea turtles’ ‘lost years’

February 4, 2025 at 6:09 p.m.

Using satellite trackers, scientists have discovered the whereabouts of young sea turtles during a key part of their lives.

This 1825 etching provided by the Library of Congress shows an astronomical chart depicting Bootes the Ploughman holding a spear, a sickle, and two dogs, Asterion and Chara, on leashes, a quadrant, and the hair of Berenice forming the constellations. (Sidney Hall/Library of Congress via AP)

How to catch the Quadrantids, the first meteor shower of 2025

December 31, 2024 at 8:49 a.m.

When the Quadrantid meteor shower peaks on Friday, it will be the first chance of 2025 to see fireballs in the sky.

This illustration provided by researchers depicts a person carving an osteoderm from a giant sloth in Brazil about 25,000 to 27,000 years ago. (Júlia d’Oliveira via AP)

Giant sloths and mastodons lived with humans for millennia in the Americas, new discoveries suggest

December 20, 2024 at 6:32 p.m.

Sloths weren’t always slow-moving, furry tree-dwellers. Their prehistoric ancestors were huge — up to 4 tons — and when startled, they brandished immense claws.

This 2014 image provided by NASA shows a Taurid fireball recorded at the NASA All Sky Fireball Network station in Tullahoma, Tenn. (NASA via AP)

The Taurid meteor showers peak a week apart in November

November 3, 2024 at 1:16 p.m.

The Southern Taurids will reach their zenith early Tuesday morning and the Northern Taurids on Nov. 12.

Researcher John Jumper, left, and Demis Hassabis, CEO of DeepMind Technologies, the AI division behind Gemini, speak to Associated Press at the Google DeepMind offices in London, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024 after being awarded with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.(AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Nobel Prize in chemistry honors 3 scientists who used AI to design proteins, life’s building blocks

October 9, 2024 at 3:49 p.m.

Three scientists who discovered powerful techniques to predict and even design novel proteins — the building blocks of life — were awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday.

In this Thursday night, Dec. 13, 2012, file photo, a meteor streaks across the sky during the annual Geminid meteor shower over Springville, Ala.

Two meteor showers will flash across the sky around the same time in late July

July 28, 2024 at 9:44 a.m.

The Southern Delta Aquariid meteor shower peaks in late July. And this year, it will coincide with a second smaller meteor shower, the Alpha Capricornids.

A gorilla family is observed by people visiting the Fort Worth Zoo in Fort Worth, Texas, Friday, Feb. 23, 2024. Researchers will be standing by to observe how animals’ routines at the zoo are disrupted when skies dim on April 8. They previously detected other strange animal behaviors in 2017 at a South Carolina zoo that was in the path of total darkness. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

How do animals react during a total solar eclipse? Scientists plan to find out in April

March 11, 2024 at 12:19 p.m.

When a total solar eclipse transforms day into night, will tortoises start acting romantic? Will giraffes gallop? Will apes sing odd notes?

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