Scientists graded every river and stream in the contiguous United States, flagging specific repairs each one needs to support ...

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Scientists testing potential treatments for sleep apnea made an unexpected discovery. How quickly people react may depend on ...

Avian flu, overfishing, and a super El Niño have decimated Peru’s largest colony of Humboldt penguins. Scientists are holding ...

Season 2 follows people losing their ability to speak — and the AI and brain implants helping them find their voices again.

Before the sun fully formed, tiny bits of rock were already recording the magnetic forces present in the very early solar ...

The 10th century treatment called Bald’s eyesalve attacks microbes in multiple ways. Molecule mixtures from it may inspire ...

The rare fossil hints that differences in plumage may explain why some Cretaceous-era birds survived an asteroid impact but ...

Space scientists aren’t so sure. As light travels from space to the ground, it scatters off molecules in the atmosphere, says ...

Gaps in early warning systems and community preparedness contributed to the high death toll from Nepal’s debris flow.

A record player-like microscope and computer simulations solve a longtime mystery, showing that metal ions bridge DNA strands ...

When AI agents hack real systems, the bigger issue may be the human choices that gave them access, autonomy and too few ...