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A Wisconsin-sized region of frozen soil is thawing fast, releasing three trillion more gallons of water per year than it did ...

Charles H. Bennett and Gilles Brassard, winners of this year’s Turing Award, spent their lives touting the advantages of the ...

The U.S. space agency’s Skyfall project calls for sending robotic helicopters to Mars on a nuclear-powered spacecraft before ...

These guidelines reinforce the importance of whole grains and fruit and vegetables but clash with the government’s latest ...

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Fresh fruits and vegetables can often come with toxic residues from pesticides, some of which contain so-called “forever ...

Infections of the BA.3.2 variant of the COVID-causing coronavirus are still at very low levels, but experts are concerned it ...

James Cameron tells Scientific American how his latest documentary, Secrets of the Bees, reveals an intimate view of the ...