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Bolstering a type of bacteria that lives in the uterus may help counter age-related changes that can make it harder to get pregnant, a new study…
Even though August 12’s solar eclipse won’t be much to look at for observers in the U.S., it’ll be even less impressive if you can’t look…
Uberaba Geopark: A time capsule from the Late Cretaceous period nestled in Brazil’s tropical savanna
QUICK FACTSName: Uberaba Geopark (also known as “Terra dos Gigantes,” or “Land of the Giants”)Location: Minas Gerais, BrazilCoordinates: -19.71, -47.96Why it’s incredible: The park hosts prehistoric-fossil-bearing…
Your favorite stretchy workout clothes may be much easier to recycle one day, thanks to a new type of elastic yarn that is as strong and…
Scientists are preparing for an interstellar rescue of humanity’s most distant spacecraft, Voyager 1, after fixing up its twin from billions of miles away.According to a…
Artificial intelligence (AI) has helped uncover new weaknesses in two cryptographic systems, including a simplified version of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) that underpins much of…
New images captured by the world’s most powerful solar telescope have revealed something that was hiding in plain sight on the sun for 150 years: thousands…
The Caspian Sea, the world’s largest inland body of water, is in major trouble. Since the mid-1990s, this saline lake, located between Europe and Asia, has…
In the dead of night on Wednesday (Aug. 5), part of a defunct SpaceX rocket slammed into the moon at more than 5,000 mph (8,000 km/h)…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new seasonal flu vaccine that uses mRNA as its base.Moderna, the vaccine’s maker, announced Wednesday (Aug.…













