A new study is fueling speculation and fear about the risks of a major earthquake in the Cascadia subduction zone, including ...

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An enormous glowing cloud that contains approximately 3,400 solar masses worth of gas has been discovered near the solar ...

A shameful mass propaganda campaign is unfolding in the U.S., one that will make millions of kids needlessly sick with ...

Some users of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs have been reporting strange changes in food preferences, such as a new dislike for ...

President Trump has dismissed hundreds of scientists working on the congressionally mandated National Climate Assessment, ...

A vaccine that blocks infection with the human papillomavirus has helped to lower cervical cancer rates. Researchers want to ...

President Trump’s EPA administrator Lee Zeldin seems to be focusing on costs to industry in an effort to dismantle the ...

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The mathematics underpinning the modern method of elliptic curve cryptography originated with Renaissance architect Filippo ...

Under the Trump administration, NOAA has minimized an announcement that climate-warming carbon dioxide concentrations in the ...

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