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According to the American Lung Association’s latest State of the Air report, more than 156 million Americans are breathing air that is deemed unhealthy. That’s nearly half of the country.

The report analyzed data collected between…

It can be difficult to understand quantum mechanics. That’s okay, because, in the early days of the Internet, few could understand how that worked.

Now, new developments in quantum communication may turbocharge just how quickly and securely…

Over the past two decades, a troubling pattern has emerged: more young adults are being diagnosed with colorectal cancer — a disease traditionally seen in people over 50. If this trend continues, early-onset colorectal cancer could become the…

The most powerful instrument of its kind has now taken its first picture of the sun. Although the Inouye Solar Telescope began operating from its perch on the Hawaiian volcano Haleakala in 2022, the addition of its latest key piece of equipment…

It’s one hell of an old ant. Researchers discovered a 113-million-year-old hell ant preserved in a chunk of Brazilian limestone. The find earned it the title of the oldest such specimen, according to a paper in the journal Current Biology.

The…

A new male contraception has been shown in trials to last for at least two years, in a…

We all need a way to get along in this wild, wicked world, and a rare insect found only on a mountainside on O’ahu has found an incredible strategy.

A species of caterpillar that scientists are calling the ‘bone collector’ is not only a…

With vaccination rates among US kindergarteners steadily declining in recent years and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vowing to reexamine the childhood vaccination schedule, measles and other previously eliminated…

Plastic is one of humanity’s most useful inventions… and one of its most persistent problems. Plastic has become so ingrained in modern life that it’s easy to forget how long it lingers once tossed away. The truth is that…

In 2018, a study made headlines when it found that a captive orca, or killer whale, was able to imitate human speech. The whale, called Wikie, lived at the Marineland Aquarium in Antibes, France. Wikie was trained to produce the words “Ah ah,”…