Using data from over 10,000 individuals, the study found that over half the interventions had not been assessed for safety.

It’s a long-held tradition in the Vestmannaeyjar (Westman Islands), where puffins nest in large numbers. The island cluster is home to the largest puffin colony in the world, with around 830,000 ...

Today is the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina making landfall in Louisiana, which, although only classified as a Category 3 storm due to wind speeds, wreaked havoc as it brou ...

Geological time scales may look like tidy timelines in textbooks, but their boundaries tell a much more chaotic story.” ...

New research suggests younger people are already experiencing worse mental health, instead of a spike in midlife.

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The system called Calvera, after the villain in The Magnificent Seven, is located 37 degrees above the galactic plane at 6,500 light-years from us. The two parts of Calvera, the pulsar and supernova ...

Thanks to the planetary alignment at the time of the eclipse, a record-breaking 7 billion people will be able to see the celestial event. Obviously, weather permitting, but up to 60 percent of the ...

“Ea tricks humanity by spreading fake news. He tells the Babylonian Noah, known as Uta–napishti, to promise his people that food will rain from the sky if they help him build the ark," Worthington ...

An intriguing new theory to explain the legendary Wow! Signal makes a convincing case. Turns out the oldest known ankylosaur was also ridiculously spiky with a trait we’ve never seen in any vertebrate ...

They then scanned the Middle Pleistocene fossil record in search of specimens that matched the Denisovan profile, and found that Dali Man was a strong fit. Of the 18 traits for which the Dali cranium ...

For several years, astronomers have been seeing the hallmark of planet formation around stellar protoplanetary disks. A baby ...