Massachusetts was one of the original 13 colonies that founded the United States. Known as the “Bay State,” there are loads of things to do in Massachusetts. Massachusetts has a rich history, art, ...

Whales are more than beautiful swimmers in the ocean. Scientists indicate that they do a process known as the whale pump. It is about feeding deep underwater and urinating near the surface.

Cape Cod’s waters now host two high-tech buoys that listen for endangered right whales. How does this help protect these giants in real time?

In the waters off New England, one of Earth's rarest mammals swims slowly, mouth agape. The North Atlantic right whale ...

Attentive readers will recall Christopher Dionne’s suggestion that the scale of large datasets could be conveyed by comparing them to the genome of the blue whale (12 April). Bruce Horton writes ...

A rare New Zealand snail has been filmed for the first time squeezing an egg from its neck, delighting scientists trying to save the critically endangered meat-eating mollusk. Threatened by coal ...

Scientists have assembled a first of its kind ‘pangenome’, a kind of reference genome, by stitching together key parts of genomes from 144 varieties of wild and cultivated varieties of rice ...

MIAMI BEACH, FLA. (WSVN) - Scientists have a very smelly prediction for Florida beaches this year. Scientists at the University of South Florida Optical Oceanography Lab, who track sargassum ...

In fact, scientists have discovered that in older adults, this type of excessive sleepiness could be a warning sign for dementia, according to new research. Of course, it’s important to stress ...

Things are heating up hundreds of miles off the coast of Oregon, where a large undersea volcano is showing signs of impending eruption, scientists ... life such as fish, whales and octopuses ...