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How the brain learns to read is an evolutionary mystery...

Reading hasn't been around for long, evolutionary speaking. Instead, the brain r...

How will NASA’s Roman Space Telescope see exoplanets?

NASA’s newest major observatory will include the most advanced planet-imaging te...

Tropical Storm Dolly forms in the Atlantic

It’s a weird meteorological coincidence on the heels of Dolly Parton’s death

What Nepal's floods reveal about “cascading hazards”

The Nepal disaster appears to be a “cascading event,” where one hazard seems to ...

Climate change is supercharging El Niños, coral records...

Fossilized Galápagos corals show clear evidence that today’s El Niños are much s...

Tiny tremors can’t always warn when fracking will trigg...

A study of 70,000 earthquakes finds tiny tremors often precede larger fracking-l...

Why glacial collapse likely caused the Nepal disaster—a...

The disaster has claimed hundreds of lives, and at least 1,400 people are missing

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will rewrite how we study ...

Astronomers are lining up to leverage NASA’s soon-to-launch Nancy Grace Roman Sp...

Is the keto diet better than the Mediterranean? New cli...

In a clinical trial, people with obesity saw clear health benefits on the keto d...

New NASA photos reveal 16 galaxies from across the cosm...

Spirals, ellipticals, irregulars, oh my!

More Americans believe the government is withholding in...

According to a new poll, more Americans also think they have seen a UFO now than...

Wall of floodwater sweeps away villages in Nepal, with ...

A massive flood potentially caused by a chunk of ice breaking off from a glacier...

Is there a ‘window of opportunity’ to prevent Alzheimer...

A pair of new studies point to the role of early menopause and hormone treatment...

Electric rain can eat through metal

New research shows that water becomes electrified as it slides down smooth surfa...

Mars may be two-faced to its core

The Red Planet’s global geography of low-lying northern plains and rugged southe...

U.S. approves breakthrough pancreatic cancer drug, hera...

Pancreatic cancer is considered one of the hardest to treat and most serious for...

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