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One of the primary goals of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is to detect atmospheres around exoplanets, to try to suss out whether or not they could potentially support life. But, in order to do that, scientists have ...

Carmen Basu, bundled in a red jacket and woolly scarf, stood outside the headquarters of her local health plan one morning after picking up free groceries. She had brought her husband, teenage son, and 79-year-old mother-in-law ...

Before giving birth to her second child, Heidi DiLorenzo was anxious. She worried about her blood pressure and the preeclampsia that prompted her to be hospitalized twice during the pregnancy. She worried that some terrible, ...

Extreme weather is placing greater strain on Australia's power grids. In 2022, the record-breaking Northern Rivers floods blacked out almost 70,000 households. A powerful storm in 2024 cut electricity to more than half a ...

Scientists at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) have achieved a historic breakthrough in nuclear energy by launching full-scale production of enriched fuel salt for the Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment (MCRE)—the world's ...

Charles Hillman has known for a long time that exercise has a positive impact on the brain. This effect has been demonstrated by the Northeastern University psychology professor and others in varied and robust experimental ...

While the dangers of secondhand smoke are widely recognized, a new study led by Prof. Sun Yele at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has uncovered a more persistent and stealthy hazard ...

Atmospheric rivers are massive plumes of moisture carried across the sky that can dump heavy rains or snow over land.

A self-described foodie, social butterfly and New Yorker for 20 years, Lina Axmacher has long loved exploring the city's famed restaurant culture.

Most of the plastic products we use are made through injection molding, a process in which molten plastic is injected into a mold to mass-produce identical items. However, even slight changes in conditions can lead to defects, ...

A study conducted during the 2024 French elections finds that information about immigrants' efforts to overcome poverty and learn French reduces negative beliefs about immigration and modestly decreases opposition to immigration ...

Disruptions to our circadian clocks—the internal molecular timekeepers "ticking" in nearly every cell of our body throughout the day—can lead to a wide range of health problems, from sleep disturbances to diabetes and ...