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Scientists had a rare opportunity to study living brain tissue — and cracked a giant mystery about sleep health
Is immortality possible by digitally scanning the brain? Dr. Zeleznikow-Johnston believes so but some are skeptical
Aaron Siri, a conspiracy theorist like Kennedy, has also filed a petition to stop distribution of 13 other vaccines
New research from the American Medical Association finds that Americans are an outlier when it comes to illness
Trump has declared a war on government scientists as he denies climate change and pursues a pro-fossil fuel agenda
The European Space Agency billed the event as a tech demo
Earlier last month, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service announced that Earth’s average temperature in 2024 had been on average...
The residents of a small North Carolina town are suing Duke Energy, one of the largest utilities companies in the world, for its role in contributing...
Before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. became a top science adviser to Donald Trump — a once-and-future president who openly denies environmental science —...
Venus, the second planet from our Sun, vividly demonstrates why the greenhouse effect makes life impossible. With an average surface temperature of...
Plastic pollution is choking the planet. From the bottom of the Mariana trench to the top of Mount Everest, there is little escaping the problem....
Climate change denial is often seen as a mainstay of the political right, as leaders like President-elect Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson...
A pale blue-green enigma, the planet Uranus has long fascinated astronomers precisely because of its extreme distance, some 1.6 billion miles (2.6...
2024 was an ominous year for the future of Earth. Climate scientists anticipate that it will be the first year in which the average planetary...
Australian police arrested 170 climate change activists in the state of New South Wales during a protest from Friday through Sunday. Representing the...
Tashbulak and Tugunbulak may be largely forgotten today, but the pair of Uzbekistani cities thrived during the Medieval era. Nestled in the Tien Shan...
When scientists discovered water and a chemical compound common in RNA on a rock from the asteroid Ryugu, astronomy fans and laypeople alike held...
On Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency released newly-acquired data showing that over 143 million Americans are exposed to so-called...
The Chagos Archipelago is one of the most remote places on Earth. Smack dab in the middle of the Indian Ocean, the collection of more than five dozen...
A “once in a decade” bomb cyclone pummeled the Pacific Northwest on early Wednesday, with southern Canada and Washington, Oregon and California...
Ned Barnett lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, meaning he resides in one of the seven swing states that Donald Trump swept in the 2024 presidential election....
On Thursday, British authorities charged a pair of climate change activists for vandalizing Stonehenge, a prehistoric megalithic structure on a chalk...
Gulls are everywhere, but most people see them as pests, taking for granted their remarkable variety and beauty. Many people think of gulls ("seagull"...
When the Leonids fly across the sky, stargazers know that the comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle is nearby. Every year, the iconic meteor shower offers a...
ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods has a message for President-elect Donald Trump: Do not pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord. Speaking to...
When molecular biologist Francis Crick tripped on the psychedelic drug LSD in 1953, his mind famously pulled together all of his previous research on...
President-elect Donald Trump tapped New York Republican Lee Zeldin Monday to be his new head of the Environmental Protection Agency, further...
On Election Day, millions of Americans elected a Republican national ticket whose vice presidential candidate, JD Vance, regularly denounced women who...
In 1641, French philosopher René Descartes, writing his famous “Meditations on First Philosophy,” observed that a mind is fundamentally different...
The Copernicus Climate Change Service, a European Union organization that monitors global heating, announced on Thursday that the year 2024 will be...
When the science journal Nature surveyed more than 2,000 scientists last month about the 2024 presidential election, 86 percent said they preferred...
Donald Trump’s shocking Election Day victory wasn’t the only comeback on Election Day. The polling industry, which suffered serious black eyes...
Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson said on Monday that he believes climate change is caused by abortions, not burning fossil fuels. Speaking on a...
The co-founder of World Weather Attribution says “Europe still hasn’t accepted the realities of extreme weather”
For millions of Americans in the Southwest, the extreme heat from climate change is a literal life-and-death matter. Just ask Amy Dishion, whose...
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), released its annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin earlier this week, reporting that humans are emitting carbon...
In the 2008 film “Twilight,” a vampire describes the scent of blood as being “like a drug.” While in the world of fantasy, vampires may crave...
For the world to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, the 200 countries who signed the Paris climate agreement must hit a target of 43%...
A recent report from the Icelandic Meteorological Office suggests that magma is building up underground near a volcano known as Askja, a mountain...
Russia has helped spread false and misleading information on the internet about Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton, two climate change-fueled...
More than eighty Nobel Prize laureates published an open letter on Thursday declaring that the scientific policies of Vice President Kamala Harris are...
Many people don’t need something as dramatic as Hurricane Milton to tell them our climate is spiraling out of control. It’s evident everywhere,...
Julie France is a 34-year-old Millennial in Denver, a high-altitude Colorado city theoretically safer than other places from one of the most...
A recent study in the journal Nature Climate Change found that severe increases in aridity caused by climate change is drying out frog habitats across...
Fitting in at work and surviving the corporate rat race is difficult on its own, but having a spectrum disorder such as attention deficit...
Prominent elected officials throughout New York State are endorsing a recent report that argues Big Oil should be held legally accountable for the...
The first color that comes to mind when thinking about Antarctica is a stark white, which makes sense, given the southernmost continent is generally...
The Orionids are back, promising views of a spectacular meteor shower this weekend. Stargazers can eagerly look skyward starting on Sunday and...
Fungi have a nasty reputation among humans. They can cause dangerous diseases like Cryptococcus neoformans and Candida auris among our own kind,...
If you compare a human’s nose to a dog’s nose, the former usually comes up wanting. Canine noses are so sensitive, they can smell a human’s...