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Owners of Seacrest Wolf Preserve in northern Florida have been raising their wolves to become accustomed to humans – and for a $25 fee, visitors can mingle with a pack. Cynthia and Wayne Watkins’ preserve is billed as the largest such facility in the Southeast. It lets wolves become ambassadors for their species, they say, and helps people become advocates …

The 2014 Perseid meteor shower — a usually spectacular celestial showcase — might be washed out by the light of a nearly full moon rising at the same time as the shower’s peak in August.

A report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that about 2,000 deaths in America are tied to the weather and two-thirds of them can be attributed to extreme cold .

Two years after scientists trapped the Higgs boson in the bowels of the Swiss Alps, another of the great puzzles of quantum physics has been caught in captivity. First proposed last year, the “Cheshire Cat” paradox plunges scientists into the world of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll’s book.

A beetle that kills ash trees has been found in another Massachusetts county. Suffolk County is the third in the Bay State to have infestations of the Emerald Ash Borer.

Scientists have recently revealed that the shape of the moon could be attributed to the tidal effects acting early in the moon’s history.

NASA has set a new record: the Opportunity rover, which landed on Mars in 2004, has now driven more than 25 miles. The distance is the farthest anything has driven somewhere other than Earth. A Russian lunar rover held the previous record. The Lunokhod 2 operated for less than five months, but it drove more than 24 miles on Earth’s …

A mystery ship unearthed during construction of the new World Trade Center site isn’t so much of a mystery anymore. A new study based on analysis of tree rings in its wood reveals that the ship likely got built in 1773 in Philadelphia—and with the same white oak used to build parts of Independence Hall, Live Science reports.

A 20 million-year-old grasshopper the size of a rose thorn has been named after Sir David Attenborough. Electrotettix attenboroughi was found in the Dominican Republic encased in amber 50 years ago and has now been identified as a new species.

With extra protection on its breeding lakes, Alberta’s trumpeter swan population has recovered enough to be removed from the threatened species list.

An octopus in the deep sea was observed brooding its eggs for four-and-a-half years, longer than any other known animal, a paper published on Wednesday in the Public Library of Science, or PLOS ONE, revealed. Scientists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute found a female octopus 4600 feet below the ocean surface clinging to a rocky ledge while guarding a …