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For Sarah Hall, every mealtime was dangerous.She has a rare condition called cardioinhibitory syncope, which causes overactive nerve signals to tell the heart to stop beating…

Frozen droppings of prehistoric ground squirrels are chock-full of DNA from ice-age beasts, including woolly mammoths, a mysterious big cat and a huge array of other…

Earth’s underground fungal network is so vast that, if it were in outer space, it would span roughly 10% of the Milky Way if placed in…

A century-old tuberculosis vaccine reduced insulin use in people with diabetes, new clinical trial results suggest. The catch: Research on this vaccine has divided the diabetes…

It’s official: El Niño is here, and it’s shaping up to be among the strongest ever recorded.The natural climate cycle, which supercharges temperatures and shifts weather…

With the arrival of the summer solstice on June 21, stargazing becomes a late-night hobby. But June is one of the best months of the year…

Archaeologists in Russia have discovered a rare elite burial of a medieval woman who was accompanied in death by a newborn child and a flayed horse.…

Scientists have discovered a vast whale graveyard stretching for hundreds of miles in the Indian Ocean, with some fossil bones dating back over 5 million years.The…

When the U.S. faces Paraguay in the World Cup in Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium on June 12, the teams will play on a natural-grass surface that,…

A mysterious “cold blob” in the Atlantic Ocean is a sign that key ocean currents are weakening, a new study has found, with potentially devastating long-term…