NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore performed their ninth and fifth spacewalks respectively, with Williams ...

It is well known that consuming sugary drinks increases the risk of diabetes, but the mechanism behind this relationship is unclear. Now, in a paper appearing in Cell Metabolism, researchers show that ...

New discovery reveals an entire new world smaller than viruses and bacteria.

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The National Science Foundation's funding freeze, and wider confusion about the status and future of science funding, is ...

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There may be something about Earth’s remote places that root many of humanity’s greatest achievements in space. John Glenn (the first American to orbit the Earth) and Neil Armstrong (the first man ...