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Extreme heat kills more people in the U.S. each year than hurricanes, floods, and tornadoes combined. But how can we address ...

It's a well-established fact that forests and water are deeply connected. For decades, paired-watershed experiments—a ...

A quick heart trace taken during a warm-up trot could identify racehorses at risk of cardiac arrhythmias during ...

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Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants ...

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They're sipping smoothies, snapping phone pics, dealing with crashed email and fixing broken toilets: astronauts, they're ...

A research team has, for the first time in the world, elucidated the microscopic mechanism by which quantum order is lost and ...

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As four astronauts whiz toward a flyby of the moon, looking out for them are mission control experts using cutting-edge ...

The Artemis 2 astronauts have passed the halfway point between Earth and the moon on Saturday as they sped toward a planned ...