Even as cases of diseases such as measles rise, childhood vaccinations are declining, thanks to changes in public health ...

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Snapped on August 23, 1966, by the uncrewed Lunar Orbiter 1, the photo’s legacy lives on in the breathtaking images of Earth ...

The U.S. this summer has been gripped by a parasite-borne illness that causes explosive diarrhea, which has basically taken ...

During trauma, the amygdala becomes highly active, processing emotions such as fear, and the hippocampus becomes overwhelmed ...

Despite this object lesson right on our interplanetary doorstep, the “Earth-like” term endures. Even if we expand what we ...

This week New York City reported its first human case of West Nile virus for the year; health officials said the infected ...

Spread out over the approximately 343 million people in the U.S., the figure amounts to $116,618 of debt per resident. A ...

A strengthening El Niño may surpass any seen since the 19th century and will usher in another record hot year or two ...

Twisters don’t touch down in New York City often, but they can when the conditions are just right ...

The star S301 swoops so close to our galaxy's supermassive black hole that it could, for the first time ever, reveal that ...

The space agency’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, which studied cataclysmic cosmic explosions, is expected to burn up in ...