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California's top energy bosses soon will decide when to snuff out natural gas flames in new homes.

Cardiovascular risk from the accumulation of bad cholesterol in blood vessels is shifting from high-income Western countries, especially those in Europe, to low- and middle-income countries, particularly in East and Southeast Asia.

Education makes a dramatic difference in how well you age.

What do Americans want NASA to do? Make monitoring global climate a top priority.

Two thousand years ago, Ancient Peruvian farmers harnessed El Niño floodwaters using structures that diverted the weather pattern’s floods to new farmlands.

Climate change consequences can reverberate through all aspects of societyeven rock and roll.

Light in the morningmore than any other time of dayleads to powerful brain-boosting effects, helping us to function as best we can, despite the approaching winter.

As recording-breaking wildfires continue to rage across the West, firefighters are confronting a new challenge: rising nighttime temperatures.

An urban expedition reveals nearly 1,000 species of tiny creepy crawlies."

Is the texture of space smooth or bumpy? The answer is that it's both. In this video, we explore the concept of cosmic inhomogeneities.

This week we're rolling out a special podcast series about how the 2020 election could affect science, technology and medicine.

A weather drama is playing out in the forests of north-central Colorado as two record wildfires meet the first large snowstorm of the winter.

"What is the reason for this research? What does it hope to accomplish? The tireless search reveals a thinly veiled dogma: that being transgender is a pathology to be fixed. This belief not only harms transgender people but also undermines good science."

Check out this cosmic thought experiment on what our universeand more specifically, our livesmight look like with some tweaks to the physics responsible for the world as we know it.

A high mountain in China turns into a safe haven for bees.

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NASA’s first-ever asteroid-sampling operation apparently went a little too well.

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