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Mammograms can be painful, but they may not need to beDaria Artemenko/Alamy Getting an X-ray can be uncomfortable – you…

An interdisciplinary team of experts in green chemistry, engineering and physics at Flinders University in Australia has developed a safer…

Seven giant funeral urns dating to pre-Columbian times have been found deep in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. A fisher who…

Deep in the constellation Canes Venatici, also called the Hunting Dogs, lies the dwarf galaxy NGC 4449. It’s part of…

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In the bottle processing plant in Reidsville, North Carolina, drifts of plastic particles, like snow banks, are piled in every…

Editor in Chief Nancy Shute discusses which should scare you more: sharks or ticks and fungus — and why sharks…

First Near-Complete Denisovan Skull Reveals What This Ancient Human Cousin Looked LikeA Denisovan skull has been identified for the first…

A NASA mission to observe the activity of the solar wind has returned its first images of giant coronal mass…

Human DNA in its natural state inside cells (left) compared with its state eight hours after being infected with the…