Any science journalist would rejoice at the revelation of aliens on Earth. It would be the story of a lifetime. So it’s not surprising that…
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Fifteen years of grading warming’s impact on the Arctic has made one thing abundantly clear: Climate change has drastically altered the Arctic in that short…
Two giant, mysterious bubbles spew from the Milky Way’s heart, and now it appears the bubbles may have doubles. Scientists have known for a decade…
More than 68 million infected with the novel coronavirus and more than 1.5 million dead. 2020 has been a year defined by global sickness and…
During a parched summer almost 2,000 years ago, people living in what is now western New Mexico crawled into the cold, dark belly of a…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has now given emergency use authorization to both the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines, and people around the country…
The recent success of some coronavirus vaccines in late-stage clinical trials has inched us closer to the end of the pandemic — a glimmer of…
For the first time, scientists are about to get their (carefully gloved) hands on asteroid dirt so old it may contain clues to how our…
It was a strange sight: In the winter of 2007, scientists in China spotted a wild giant panda romping about in horse manure, diligently smearing…
A mysterious, previously undiscovered supervolcano may be lurking beneath Alaska’s Aleutian Islands. A new study suggests a wide crater, created when the supervolcano exploded, connects…