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Colder weather is quickly approaching, which means it’s time for many folks to start cranking up the heat in their homes and apartments. But for many Americans, heating up their ...

Astronomers have observed a massive growth rate in a free-floating rogue planet that’s gobbling up gas and dust at a record rate of 6.6 billion tons per second.

Jane Goodall, a British primatologist known for her work with chimpanzees, died on Wednesday 1 October, aged 91. She was in California on a speaking tour and died of natural causes, according to the ...

Roughly 1 in 10 Americans take antidepressants. The most common type is SSRIs, or selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors, like Prozac, Lexapro, and Zoloft. But what happens when you stop taking them ...

To hear Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the head of the nation’s health policy, promoting his junk science is not only infuriating but harmful.

Oregon scientists used human skin cells to create fertilizable eggs, a step in the quest to develop lab-grown eggs or sperm to one day help people ...

This decision will cause U.S. businesses to offshore and drive innovation and entrepreneurship outside of the U.S.,” an analyst said.

Pandemic learning loss is real, and student academic performance suffered when schools closed for months in 2020 and 2021. Since then, Massachusetts has spent billions of dollars to help students ...

Jane Goodall, the intellectual, soft-spoken conservationist renowned for her groundbreaking, immersive chimpanzee field research in which she documented the primates' distinct personalities and use of ...