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Heat therapy for sick frogs lowers sperm levels

Scientists often use thermal treatment to combat fatal fungal infection in frogs...

See states’ kindergarten vaccination rates—from highest...

Even as cases of diseases such as measles rise, childhood vaccinations are decli...

Climate change opens Arctic shipping routes as roadless...

Forests, extreme weather and the realities of a warming world

Sorry, Pluto’s still not a planet

On the 20th anniversary of Pluto’s infamous demotion, Mike “Pluto Killer” Brown ...

Motor neurons don’t just move muscles. They may direct ...

A fruit fly study shows motor neurons do more than relay commands: They send sig...

How “thunderquakes” could help reveal hidden structures...

When that energy reaches the ground, some of it is converted into seismic waves ...

60 years ago NASA took the first ever photo of Earth fr...

Snapped on August 23, 1966, by the uncrewed Lunar Orbiter 1, the photo’s legacy ...

Why trauma changes how our memory engages with our cons...

Trauma can distort how memories are stored and retrieved in the brain

Mysteries of the commonplace

Editor in Chief Nancy Shute reviews new research in static electricity and other...

Is lettuce safe to eat yet? New data suggest cyclospori...

After a spike in infections in July, this explosive-diarrhea-causing outbreak ma...

Why tornadoes touched down near New York City

Twisters don’t touch down in New York City often, but they can when the conditio...

Why this El Niño will be the largest in living memory

A strengthening El Niño may surpass any seen since the 19th century and will ush...

What you need to know about West Nile virus

The mosquito-borne illness has sickened hundreds of people this year

The national debt is $40 trillion. What does that mean ...

An investigation into the incomprehensibly, unfathomably large amount of money t...

What happened when people with anorexia tried magic mus...

Researchers are exploring whether magic mushrooms could offer a new treatment fo...

‘Earth-like’ exoplanets may exist—but we don’t know of ...

Claiming an exoplanet to be “Earth-like” is a trend that needs to bite the dust

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