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Bamboo sharks walk. Ninja lantern sharks glow in the dark. Whale sharks can carry up to 300 babies at a time, at different fetal stages and from different parents. Zebra sharks experience “virgin birth”. These are but a mere sampling of the most fascinating shark discoveries of the decade. Some …

Credit: CC0 Public domain At least twice in Earth’s history, almost the entire planet was enclosed in a layer of snow and ice. These dramatic “Snowball Earth” events occurred in rapid succession, somewhere around 700 million years ago, and evidence suggests that consecutive global glaciations set the stage for the …

The state’s largest teachers union is asking Gov. Gary Herbert to keep Utah schools closed this fall, saying it is too dangerous for educators and students to return while coronavirus cases remain high. The Utah Education Association (UEA) lawsuit comes when districts must submit plans on how they will reopen …

[[[[I like the Science Times page on Facebook. The | Sign up for the Science Times Bulletin.] Various types of monoclonal antibodies are now in clinical trials. If all goes well, such concoctions could not only treat coronavirus infections but also prevent them. That could help millions of people, especially …

This artist’s impression provides an outline of how the on-board imager on ESA’s Comprehensive Satellite (IBIS) can reconstruct images of powerful events such as gamma-ray bursts (GRB) using radiation that passes through the imaging telescope. from Integral. IBIS uses two detection layers, one on top of the other, while most …