Boat docks sit on dry cracked earth at the Great Salt Lake's Antelope Island Marina in 2021 near Syracuse, Utah. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images North America hide caption
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NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams wave as they prepare to depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida to board the Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft on June 5. Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Two chimpanzees groom each other — a behavior that can involve several gestures. Anup Shah/Getty Images hide caption
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams inside the vestibule between the forward port on the International Space Station’s Harmony module and the Starliner spacecraft NASA hide caption
A bipartisan bill seeks to ban octopus farming in the U.S., outlawing a practice that has drawn controversy in Spain. Here, an octopus is seen at the Oceanopolis sea center in Brest, western France. Fred Tanneau/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
The sun rises, shedding light onto an oak grove along the western edge of Dos Rios. Geloy Concepcion for NPR hide caption
A deep sea shark and several eels are attracted to bait placed at the summit of the Cook seamount, as seen from the Pisces V submersible during a dive to the previously unexplored seamount off the coast of Hawaii's Big Island on Sept. 6, 2016. Caleb Jones/AP hide caption
Project RattleCam lets people observe rattlesnakes with a live webcam. Scott Boback hide caption
A cuttlefish swims on seagrass. Cuttlefish can change the color and texture of their bodies. cinoby/Getty Images hide caption
Dancing yeti crabs, morphing cuttlefish, other stories from the deep sea
Rev. Charles Duplessis walks by his solar panel-topped house in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward neighborhood on Friday, Feb. 25, 2022. The Environmental Protection Agency this week awarded the city nearly $50 million to help pay for installing solar on low to middle income homes. Halle Parker/WWNO hide caption
In this photo released by the National Park Service, park staff assess the damage to Biscuit Basin boardwalks after a hydrothermal explosion at Biscuit Basin in Yellowstone National Park, Wyo., on Tuesday. National Park Service/via AP hide caption
Sharks off the coast of Hawaii. Hugh Gentry/AP hide caption
It’s not a B movie: scientists say sharks are ingesting cocaine in drug-tainted water
This photo, provided by the Wildlife Conservation Society, shows a Matschie's tree kangaroo joey that made its first appearance from its mother's pouch at New York's Bronx Zoo, last Thursday. The joey, born at the end of December, is the second of its species born at the Bronx Zoo and to this female since 2021. Terria Clay/Wildlife Conservation Society/AP hide caption
Study participant Freddie sits next to a jar with an odor sample, then approaches a bowl to check for a treat. University of Bristol hide caption
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the launch of the Chandra X-ray Observatory, the mission released 25 views of cosmic objects ranging from supernova remnants to galaxy clusters and more. NASA/SAO/CXC hide caption
Glyptodonts were giant, armadillo-like shelled mammals that went extinct about 10,000 years ago. A study reveals that cut marks on a glyptodont fossil in South America could have been made by humans a little over 20,000 years ago. Daniel Eskridge/Stocktrek Images/Science Source hide caption
Gemini IV spacewalk, June 3, 1965. NASA astronaut Ed White became the first American to walk in space. NASA hide caption
Outer space changes you, literally. Here's what it does to the human body
Paul Watson, then founder and President of the animal rights and environmental Sea Shepherd Conservation, attends a demonstration against the Costa Rican government near Germany's presidential residence during a visit of Costa Rica's president in Berlin in May 2012. Greenland police said they arrested Watson on Sunday on an international arrest warrant issued by Japan. Markus Schreiber/AP hide caption
New insights into the brain's waste-removal system could one day help researchers better understand and prevent many brain disorders. Mihaela Rosu/Getty Images hide caption
This northern ghost bat (Diclidurus albus) was a special, rare find for the bat scientists gathered in Belize. “It was magical,” says evolutionary biologist Jasmin Camacho.
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An artist impression of Fona herzogae. Jorge Gonzalez hide caption
Ice melting from Greenland and the polar regions is causing sea levels to rise, shifting mass around the planet in a way that's starting to slow its spin, scientists are finding. NASA hide caption