Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

For decades, fish-eating killer whales in the Pacific Northwest have been observed harassing and even killing porpoises without consuming them —- a perplexing behavior that has long intrigued ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

John Ford still recalls the first time he heard them. He’d been puttering around the Deserters Group archipelago, a smattering of spruce- and cedar-choked islands in Queen Charlotte Strait, between ...

Bigg’s killer whales made their appearance along Kitsap shorelines and in Sinclair Inlet, with a group of seven whales swimming around, searching for food during seal pup season. Erin Gless, executive ...

Robert Pitman is a marine ecologist in southern California’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Southwest Fisheries Science Center and was the lead author of the study. Pitman and his ...