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© Thinkstock With our busy schedules and reliance on technology for entertainment, it’s hard for youngsters to get enough outdoor physical activity that is crucial to healthy development. And during a pandemic in which parents are especially overwhelmed by time, it is even more difficult to make sure that happens. …

(Cowlitz County Sheriff’s Office) The decapitated bodies of at least five sea lions found off the coast of Vancouver Island, Canada, in recent months hint that there may be a serial killer of marine mammals on the loose, or perhaps someone who is already cutting off the heads of lions. …

LONDON —In the global race to counter the coronavirus pandemic, scientists in Britain, Germany, China and the United States are pushing to develop and possibly manufacture millions of doses of vaccine in a whole new way. Click to enlarge UNTIL NEXT TIME This promising, but unproven, new generation of vaccine …

A Neanderthal skull, crushed by thousands of years of sediment and rockfall, is seen in the Shanidar cave in northern Iraq in an undated photo. Reuters According to the study, 63% of people in Bangladesh have at least one copy of the genes. The variant of the genes responsible for …

Media playback is not supported on your device Media captionMeet the socially distant scientific robot Scientists from the University of Liverpool have introduced a robotic colleague who has been working nonstop in his laboratory during the shutdown. The £ 100,000 programmable researcher learns from his results to refine his experiments. …