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What Is the Legionnaires’ Disease Outbreak That Has Killed Two People in New York City?

This week, the Sturgeon Moon rises, giving moongazers across the world the chance to see a beautiful full Moon skimming the horizon.

The Sturgeon Moon is the August full Moon, the eighth full Moon of the year, and rises on 9 August at 21:13…

The Great Barrier Reef has suffered its biggest annual drop in live coral in two out of three areas monitored by scientists since 1986, a new report has revealed.

The Australian Institute of Marine Science (Aims) report is the first to…

An outbreak of a potentially fatal bacterial infection in Harlem, New York City has so far led to two deaths.

Overall, a total of 58 people have been diagnosed with the infection, according to a statement released Monday (Aug. 4) by the New York…

Scientists have used ultrafast high-intensity lasers to superheat gold to 14 times its melting point without turning the solid metal into a liquid.

The record-breaking experiment, which was described in a study published July 23 in the journal

Call them nature’s own luxury high-rise condo rentals.

Squamellaria plants, from the same family as coffee and quinine, are fat aerial tubers perched high in tropical trees. In Fiji, one of the traditional names translates as…

A small collection of 21 teeth may have big implications for the evolution of humans in Asia. The dentition, which comes from a mystery human ancestor that lived at least 300,000 years ago in China, shows an unusual combination of features that…

NASA’s Plan for a Nuclear Reactor on the Moon Could Be a Lunar Land Grab

By Lee Billings edited by Sarah Lewin Frasier