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It may take weeks to figure out what went wrong, experts tell Salon. But politics plays no role in investigation
Bats have some of the strongest immune systems in the world. Learning how they work could prevent pandemics
The findings support theories that our evolution occurred thanks to space rocks colliding with our planet
Some are touting the Chinese app as the solution to AI's extreme drain on the energy grid. Is it accurate?
"She’s the only person in the world walking around with a pig organ inside them that’s functioning.”
Trump has ordered declassifying of documents regarding the JFK assassination and more. Schumer says do UFOs next
One of the companies to receive a contract is Jeff Bezos' aerospace corporation Blue Origin
Buried in ditches, the Neolithic carvings may have been a sacrifice to stop volcanic climate change
The U.S. is pumping record levels of oil while Trump ignores the real crisis: climate change
More than 37,000 citizen scientists have joined the Walrus From Space project, with the hopes of helping walruses
A new study reports that primates will synchronize urination with implications for the evolution of social cohesion
A new study on cosmic objects from early in the history of the universe were thought to be massive galaxies
Global heating is lowering crop yields while making food like rice and wheat less nutritious
Oil ports on coasts in places like the United States, China and Saudi Arabia will be threatened by sea levels
"1.5 is dead" protesters wrote on Darwin's grave this week, referring to the excess heating we've unleashed
Earth is surrounded by millions of pieces of space junk, which pose a constant threat to future space exploration
Misinformation is spreading rapidly as experts say climate change is the likely accelerant for California's crisis
Climate change is making wildfires more common and more severe. The pollution is killing us
The financial sector appears to be getting cold feet about efforts to curb the effects of climate change. Five of the six largest banks in the...
The universe is full of icy worlds that scientists suspect could serve as homes for alien life. These celestial bodies are so cold that humans...
It was not easy for Dr. Kevin Trenberth to leave the United States. An esteemed climate scientist who has published more than 600 articles on...
Plastic pollution is a scourge on Earth because it doesn’t naturally degrade for decades or even centuries. When many plastics break down, they...
Human brains are not computers, in spite of how often such a comparison is made, but a recent study in the journal Neuron reveals our gray matter...
Jimmy Carter lived longer than any other American president, passing away on Sunday at the age of 100. Given that he devoted much of that life to...
Seemingly no one wants a low IQ. People with self-reported low intelligence quotients describe struggling with self-esteem issues and romantic...
The concept of touching the Sun can be traced back to the ancient Greek myth of Icarus, but scientists at NASA have turned that idea into a...
Most people who own a smart watch or fitness watch use a band made of synthetic rubber to hold the device on their wrist. Although the bands are...
Back when the stars in our universe were initially being formed, they created rotating disks of dust and gas known as protoplanetary disks. These...
The year 2024 is on track to be the hottest in recorded history, as humanity has officially exceeded the 1.5º C threshold established by the 2015...
A long trip to space is about to get even longer. NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were originally supposed to spend only about a...
There’s a lot of stuff in space that we know is there but we can’t see very well or at all. Some of this stuff is known as mysterious dark matter,...
Researchers have long wished to understand the connection between sleep and memory, especially how the brain encodes long-term memories during...
Humans have yearned for immortality for as long as we‘ve understood our fragile permanence. But while dodging the Grim Reaper was once relegated to...
Aaron Siri, the lawyer for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — President-elect Donald Trump’s presumptive nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services —...
Americans spend more time on average living with diseases compared to people in other countries, according to a recent study from the American...
On Nov. 14, Rep. James Comer (R-KY) — the Republican chair for the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability and a longtime climate science...
A pair of satellites astronomers hope can create an artificial eclipse were launched from a site in India last week. Beginning in 2025, each...
Earlier last month, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service announced that Earth’s average temperature in 2024 had been on average...
The residents of a small North Carolina town are suing Duke Energy, one of the largest utilities companies in the world, for its role in...
Before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. became a top science adviser to Donald Trump — a once-and-future president who openly denies environmental science —...
Venus, the second planet from our Sun, vividly demonstrates why the greenhouse effect makes life impossible. With an average surface temperature of...
Plastic pollution is choking the planet. From the bottom of the Mariana trench to the top of Mount Everest, there is little escaping the problem....
Climate change denial is often seen as a mainstay of the political right, as leaders like President-elect Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike...
A pale blue-green enigma, the planet Uranus has long fascinated astronomers precisely because of its extreme distance, some 1.6 billion miles (2.6...
2024 was an ominous year for the future of Earth. Climate scientists anticipate that it will be the first year in which the average planetary...
Australian police arrested 170 climate change activists in the state of New South Wales during a protest from Friday through Sunday. Representing...
Tashbulak and Tugunbulak may be largely forgotten today, but the pair of Uzbekistani cities thrived during the Medieval era. Nestled in the Tien...
When scientists discovered water and a chemical compound common in RNA on a rock from the asteroid Ryugu, astronomy fans and laypeople alike held...
On Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency released newly-acquired data showing that over 143 million Americans are exposed to so-called “...