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New research shows microbes in our cities are evolving to resist the very cleaners we use to eliminate them. It also ...

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Far beneath the lush landscape of southern China, a sprawling subterranean laboratory aims to be the world's first to crack a ...

Lifeguards declared Sydney's famed Bondi beach and several other strands closed Thursday, as more mysterious black "tar ball" ...

Along coastal California, the possibility of earthquakes and landslides is commonly prefaced by the phrase, "not if, but when ...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has provided a dramatic and colorful close-up look at one of the most rambunctious stars ...

In an era where viral outbreaks can escalate into global pandemics with alarming speed, the ability to quickly develop new ...

In a study published in Nature, a team has uncovered new new details about the long association between humans and our ...

On October 16, 1843, the Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton had an epiphany during a walk alongside Dublin's Royal ...

Geography textbooks describe the Earth's mantle beneath its plates as a well-mixed viscous rock that moves along with those ...