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At least 20 people across 17 states have been hospitalized due to severe gastrointestinal illness as more than 1,000 cases of the parasitic infection cyclosporiasis have…

A metal detectorist in Norway dismissed a rare 900-year-old silver coin as a button, before researchers realized it was a one-of-a-kind piece linked to Magnus Barefoot…

A years-long malaria control campaign in the Brazilian Amazon nearly eliminated the disease from a city — but then cases rebounded. Now, scientists think they’ve uncovered…

For the first time, physicists have built a working version of quantum mechanics without complex numbers — numbers that have been considered essential to the theory…

‘A silent pandemic’: How Japan is curbing antibiotic resistance, $5 at a timeThis interview is the second article in a series comparing antibiotic use in Japan…

Using a quantum computer alongside a supercomputer, scientists have developed a breakthrough pathway for modeling the physics inside a fusion reactor. The world-first experiment could help…

Two of the Milky Way’s gigantic spiral arms appear to be much farther away than we realized, scientists have discovered after listening to the echoes of…

Engineers have designed a waterproof “diving suit” for cyborg cockroaches that enables the hybrid insects to survive and roam underwater for up to three hours. This…

Scientists have invented a soft robotic heart that could give them a new way to study a mysterious condition that accounts for roughly half of all…

For decades, cities have been designed around “gray infrastructure.” Roads move people. Bridges connect communities. Water systems protect public health. These systems are governed by engineering…