A massive new sunspot complex, dubbed AR 4294-4296, has emerged on the sun and is facing directly at Earth. The dark patch is ...

In December 1954, Gertrude Elion and colleagues described a new compound they had developed that sent children with leukemia ...

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The CDC's vaccine committee has voted to roll back a universal recommendation that newborns be vaccinated against hepatitis B ...

Scientists modeled Europe's future if a key Atlantic current were to collapse and found that the continent faces a much drier ...

The Geminid meteor shower has begun. The Geminids peak overnight on Dec. 13 and 14, when up to 150 "shooting stars" per hour ...

A genetic study of 80 skulls found at a Stone Age city in China has revealed that the sacrificed people were mostly men, in ...

For decades, helium has been produced with natural gas, generating huge carbon emissions. Now, geologists are looking for new ...

Researchers have counted 16,600 fossilized dinosaur footprints and 1,378 swim tracks at a site in Bolivia that showcase a ...

A new device cuts down the time it takes to harvest water from the atmosphere from days to minutes, MIT researchers say.

Scientists invented a new experimental system to study how age-related changes in egg cells make them more prone to ...

Physicists have transformed a decades-old technique for simplifying quantum equations into a reusable, user-friendly ...