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How could loosened radiation exposure rules affect publ...

A proposed rule change could expose more Americans to higher doses of radiation ...

China’s Long March 10B rocket successfully launches—and...

The inaugural launch and first-stage booster recovery of China’s Long March 10B ...

Pluto has landslides

New Horizons data reveal Pluto’s first six confirmed landslides along steep crat...

Lost in Curiosity reveals the messy reality of doing sc...

In her new book, science journalist Roberta Kwok takes readers behind the scenes...

Why the controversy over de-extinction risks missing th...

Efforts to revive the thylacine and woolly mammoth are forcing conservationists ...

Is Earth the only planet with total solar eclipses?

Other planets have moons, too. Do they get eclipses like we do?

‘Dark’ comets sprouting tails could help solve interste...

A strange class of comet could explain the enigmatic behavior of ‘Oumuamua, the ...

Physicist says splashy new cosmology study made ‘elemen...

A recent study in the journal Nature carries cosmos-quaking implications for our...

These absurdly cute mice live at higher altitudes than ...

Living at altitudes with less than half the oxygen at sea level, these mice have...

Cases of explosive diarrhea-causing cyclosporiasis are ...

Cyclosporiasis case numbers have skyrocketed from several dozen nationwide in Ju...

Early bird, night owl or something else? Five patterns ...

New research identifies five distinct sleep subtypes, revealing links between br...

Scientists get clearest view yet of a spreading seafloor

A rare eruption in the Indian Ocean let researchers capture one of the clearest ...

Can we geoengineer ourselves out of an El Niño year?

A controversial geoengineering proposal suggests that brightening clouds off Sou...

International timekeepers to vote on changing the leap ...

To align Coordinated Universal Time with Earth’s rotation, a second occasionally...

Einstein’s greatest theory triumphs again in landmark f...

A best-yet measurement of one of general relativity’s most mind-boggling effects...

Detecting hidden nuclear weapons in space may be possib...

For almost 60 years, a global ban on nuclear weapons in space has held up. But t...

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