Whales travel through the ocean, lunging, leaping, and playing, with grace and swiftness that belie their huge size. The secret to their incredible lifestyle, besides their well-adapted skeletal and ...

Between 2016 and 2024, researchers collected 103 respiratory samples from 85 NorthAtlantic right whales using drones. Drones provide a stable, quiet platform, minimizing stressand disturbance to the ...

It's time now for our science news roundup from Short Wave, NPR's science podcast. And I'm joined now by Emily Kwong and Berly McCoy from the show. Hi to both of you. BERLY MCCOY, BYLINE: Hi, Juana.

Using an unusual method, researchers have detected a deadly virus in exhaled whale breath: drones capture droplets from the whale's breath. An alliance of scientists from King's College London, the ...

Monitoring the health of the world’s largest animals has always posed a challenge. Whales spend most of their lives underwater, migrate across vast distances, and are difficult to examine without ...