New heart health recommendations emphasize early testing and treatment to lower cholesterol levels as key to reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease.
A group of 11 medical associations including the American College of…

New heart health recommendations emphasize early testing and treatment to lower cholesterol levels as key to reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease.
A group of 11 medical associations including the American College of…

NASA is once again shooting for the Moon, for the first time since the 1970s. As soon as April 2026, NASA will launch its Artemis II mission, using the Space Launch System heavy lift rocket to send a crewed spacecraft, called Orion, into…

The social media giants Meta and Google have been held liable in a landmark California legal case that…

For the first time ever, an image of a Roman woman battling a beast in an arena has been identified.
While ancient texts say that some women battled beasts in the arenas of the Roman Empire, this is the first visual evidence that this occurred,…

For months, the team from the Musée-Parc des Dinosaures worked in the clay marls around Mèze, a quiet stretch of land between Béziers and Montpellier. The excavation began in October, intended as a routine campaign on a site known to…

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Inside NASA’s audacious plan to save a doomed space telescope
NASA’s Swift space telescope is doomed to burn up in Earth’s atmosphere later this year. A daring mission to boost it to safety…

Two newly published studies in the Records of the Australian Museum journal detail the rediscovery of two marsupials – the pygmy long-fingered possum and the ring-tailed glider. Found in New Guinea, both animals were only known from the fossil…

Archaeologists in Mexico have unearthed a square stone altar used for human sacrifices during the Toltec Empire more than 1,000 years ago.
The altar, human bones, obsidian knives and ceramic vessels were discovered during excavation for a…

Lightning on Jupiter may pack more than 100 times the power of Earth’s bolts, and may even prove to be one million times stronger, a new study finds.
Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, has correspondingly gigantic storms, with some…