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A new anti-sunscreen movement is gaining momentum. It appears to be driven in part by a growing distrust in some circles of conventional expert health advice and federal regulators. Speaking ...

Using a global network of telescopes, astronomers have detected the lowest-mass dark object yet found in the universe.

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You’re on a Zoom call, Slack is buzzing, three spreadsheets are open and your inbox pings. In that moment of divided ...

Numerous facets of human sexuality are rarely discussed. Many of us share the same sexual fantasies, masturbate regularly, ...

(via Mark Rober) It’s wild how oblivious we can be to what’s hidden right beneath the water.

For decades, it’s been known that subtle chemical patterns exist in metal alloys, but researchers thought they were too minor to matter — or that they got erased during manufacturing. Howe ...

One spring, after a long winter, an aged elephant lay dying at the bank of a small stream near the coast of what is now ...

The first fossil hominins were discovered at the beginning of the 20th century in South Africa, just over half a century ...

From Disney’s Scrooge McDuck and Cruella de Vil to DC Comics’ Lex Luthor to and Mr Burns in the Simpsons, there are plenty of ...

A deeper reach into human history is now possible, thanks to a growing body of archaeological data collected using advanced ...