Better treatments have also prevented cancer deaths in the last 45 years Colonoscopies and other cancer screening tests, paired with preventive measures and better treatments helped save nearly 6 mill...
Ancient Mesopotamians also felt love in the heart and fear in the gut, clay tablets reveal A new study suggests that the anatomical connections we make to emotions have ancient roots. Eric O’Connell/T...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Scientists threw everything they had at the sky during the solar eclipse that swept across much of the United States on April 8, 2024. They deployed high-altitude aircraft, enlisted...
WASHINGTON D.C. — The Perseverance Rover on Mars may have stumbled upon the oldest rocks humans have ever seen and, possibly, evidence of a new setting that ancient Martian organisms could have inhabi...
The time frame in which Neandertals and Homo sapiens heavily intermingled just got a little clearer. DNA analyses of ancient and modern H. sapiens reveal that Neandertals spread their genes to humans ...
From mpox to bird flu and beyond, multiple infectious disease outbreaks flared up around the world this year. Dengue cases soared It was a record year for dengue fever, a disease transmitted by mosqui...
The entire surface of the inner core, or small patches of it, may be swelling and contracting The surface of Earth’s solid inner core, which rotates within the liquid outer core, may be changing. vcha...
Twenty years ago, the seafloor west of Indonesia abruptly pushed upward as a deep undersea fault, where two of Earth’s tectonic plates meet, slipped. The upward shove violently shifted the seawater ab...
This year, the popularity of the diabetes and weight-loss drug semaglutide has continued to surge. You’ve probably seen ads on social media or heard from friends who’ve tried top-selling brand-name ve...
The loss of hospital-based obstetric services can harm maternal and infant health The closure of the only hospital-based obstetric unit in Baker City, Ore., in 2023 led this couple to travel for labor...
Drought-stressed plants emit ultrasonic clicking that moths may evaluate when seeking a host Guided by ultrasonic sounds that indicate plants’ levels of hydration, the Egyptian cotton leafworm moth, p...
The world has made progress toward eliminating malaria, with 44 countries and one territory (La Réunion) certified as malaria-free. Egypt, where malaria has existed since at least the time of the phar...
