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With the number of confirmed exoplanets in the Milky Way rising, we will have to be choosier about the targets...

Many people in the U.S. who are fully vaccinated and boosted for COVID have been waiting—eagerly in some cases—to receive...

Medicine may be about to achieve a long-sought goal: a “morning-after pill” to prevent sexually transmitted infections. It could sharply...

Coastal critters thought to be strangers to the open ocean have been found amongst the seething mass of plastic waste...

After years of disappointing results in her quest to treat heroin addiction, Marie Nyswander was more than ready to try...

Our bodies consist of about 30 trillion human cells, but they also host about 39 trillion microbial cells. These teeming...

Astronomers have discovered a cosmic smash-up just waiting to happen in a giant object just 3 billion years after the...

CLIMATEWIRE | The tailpipe emissions rules EPA proposed Wednesday are the sticks to Congress' carrots, providing the clearest view yet of...

Leaving the cultivated hillsides of the village, we crossed the park border and soon entered tropical forest, where jewel-like flowers...

An ancient stone "scoreboard" likely used in a soccer-like ball game was discovered at an archeological site in Mexico earlier...