Astronomers are hustling to use interplanetary spacecraft to study the interstellar comet dubbed 3I/ATLAS while the sun is ...

Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of ...

A degree in computer science used to promise a cozy career in tech. Now, students’ ambitions are shaped by AI, in fields that ...

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Cooking can be a relaxing, meditative act—that is, until your eyes start to sting unbearably. Cutting an onion often leads to an involuntary stream of tears, but a new scientific discovery has ...

Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) affects over a third of the global population and is linked to serious health problems. A new study has revealed that high blood ...

Issues with the ship's hull, deck beams, and more show the ship was no match for Antarctic sea ice. By Laura Baisas Published Oct 6, 2025 6:00 AM EDT Image: Photo by Frank Hurley/Scott Polar Research ...

They’re over the moon about the discovery. Scientists have discovered fresh signs that Saturn’s icy moon, Enceladus, could potentially house alien life deep within its subterranean seas, per a ...

Hovering blue flames that flicker over bogs and marshes have inspired ghostly folktales for centuries. Known as “will-o’-the-wisp,” “jack-o’-lantern,” “corpse candle” and “ignis fatuus” (“foolish fire ...

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On the morning of October 21, 1966, the Welsh mining village of Aberfan was struck by one of Britain’s most harrowing peacetime disasters. After days of heavy rain, a slag heap collapsed off a ...

In a study published in the International Journal of Paleopathology, Dr. Victoria Romano and her colleagues analyzed the bones of 189 hunter-gatherers who lived during the Late Holocene (~4000 to 250 ...