Worldwide, nearly half of new HIV infections among adults in 2019 occurred in women. Yet a long list of obstacles has kept many women from…
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Climate change could turn some dog ticks into suckers for humans instead of canines. At temperatures around 38° Celsius (100° Fahrenheit), some brown dog ticks…
Hot blue stars ejected from their cradle may explain a mysterious ultraviolet glow that surrounds the disks of many spiral galaxies. A new computer simulation…
Astrophysicist Miguel Montargès has a clear memory of the time when stars became real places for him. He was 7 or 8 years old, looking…
We were warned this might happen. While millions stayed home last spring, looking to summer for respite from the virus, experts worried that an even…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a treatment that could give children with a rare genetic illness that causes premature aging more time…
As coronavirus cases increase in the United States and around the world, scientists are finding evidence that the immunity for those who have had COVID-19…
For tips on flirting using a mask, take notes from nature experts: male bats with wrinkled faces. The first video of a wrinkled-faced sexual encounter…
Leaf-cutting worker ants might look like they’d be helpless against an enemy soldier ant many times their size. But some of the smaller ants have…
Isaac Newton’s 17th century book, the Principia, gave the famed English scientist a reputation: “(T)here goes the man that writt a book that neither he…