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A comet visible to the naked eye will make its closest approach to Earth on October 21

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After decades of speculation, two writers uncovered the answer to the Kryptos code’s final cipher

Hundreds of people at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have received layoff notices, and work at many federal laboratories has b...

In certain circumstances, losses create a sure path to victory, an idea with implications for biology and cancer therapy

Wood vaulting, a simple, low-tech approach to storing carbon, has the potential to remove 12 billion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere eve...

New video apps like Sora could turn faces into moneymaking assets and hint at a future where everyone can rent out their digital likeness

Women’s brains age more slowly than men’s, but they still have higher rates of Alzheimer’s disease