NASA’s Parker Solar Probe skimmed the sun on Christmas Eve and lived to tell the tale. The heat-hardened spacecraft made its closest solar flyby yet at 6:53 a.m. EST on December 24. It came within 6.1 ...

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Thanks to decades of conservation to restore private grasslands, numbers of the threatened insect are on the rise in the Loess Canyons.

A variant of PCSK9, a gene involved in raising cholesterol, may spur metastasis. An approved antibody might stop it.

Even just a few minutes of vigorous movement per day lowers the risk of serious cardiovascular problems, like heart attack and heart failure, in women.

Scientists paired Labrador retrievers with an AI model in a new screening test for breast, lung, colorectal or prostate cancer.

Real-time data from Axial Seamount off the Oregon coast is providing researchers with a good eruption forecasting test.

Experiments with human eyelashes and eyelash-mimicking fibers pinpoint several features that help fling water away from the eyes, researchers from the Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry of ...

Twenty years after the deadliest wave in recorded history, most oceans have warning systems and communities have learned how best to escape the danger.

The KM3NeT telescopes, currently under construction, will catch high-energy neutrinos that could reveal secrets of the cosmos.