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Living in space sounds exciting, but having babies and starting a family there might be a completely different story. New research shows that microgravity makes it harder for sperm to reach an egg and can weaken early embryo…

Dangerous weather events typically associated with extreme global warming could become more frequent even under moderate levels of heating, a new study finds.

Deadly floods in cities and catastrophic droughts in major crop-producing regions may…

April 1 is supposed to be peak snow. But this year’s western snowpack is utterly dismal

Leading US cardiologists have published new guidelines for managing high cholesterol – vital advice for reducing the risk of heart problems and strokes.

These fresh guidelines are compiled by medical experts from the American College of…

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman.

Most of us, if we think about chins at all, do so rarely. But it turns out that chins are an evolutionary clue. Among our primate…

It’s the stuff of movies: an asteroid is on a collision course with Earth, and we have to do something to stop it—or die.

Disturbingly this scenario is also the stuff of the actual universe. Scientists have discovered more than 2,000

The patient: A teenage girl in Canada

The symptoms: The teen was referred to a clinic for recurring outbreaks of hives, which appeared whenever her skin came into contact with water. She had hives at the time of her clinic visit; the inflamed…

It’s happening! Artemis II, NASA’s first crewed moon mission in more than 50 years, Is all set for launch as early as 6:24 p.m. today (April 1).

NASA hopes its gigantic Space Launch System (SLS) rocket will launch the Orion capsule containing…

Bees most definitely do not dance like no one is watching. A study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that the insects adjust their famous ‘waggle dance’ depending on the composition of their audience.

Bees know…