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Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying Theia, melting large fractions of ...

The agency this week quietly changed its official language to suggest vaccines may cause autism, a claim that scientists say ...

After her shocking lung cancer diagnosis, the late Susan Wojcicki dedicated herself to fighting the disease and looking for ...

A machine-learning breakthrough could lift the veil on Earth’s early history—and supercharge the search for alien life ...

The researchers simulated space conditions by exposing the three tissues to UV radiation and freezing and high temperatures.

Cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter has argued that we redraw the borders of “real intelligence” whenever machines reach ...

Although these findings from JWST are yet to be confirmed, they mark the closest astronomers have come to locating the ...

NASA spacecraft across the inner solar system captured new views of Comet 3I/ATLAS—the third known interstellar object ...

A new report from the HHS that is critical of gender-affirming care for minors follows a similar, widely criticized report in ...

Strong evidence suggests that food allergies are caused by a lack of exposure to food allergens—not by exposure to toxins ...

The sun’s current 11-year activity cycle has already peaked—but extreme outbursts from our star may still be in store ...