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Some clinics are touting pressurized oxygen chambers as a treatment for long COVID, but the evidence is mixed

A new analysis of red lines inside a cave in Wales suggest they were made deliberately by ancient humans some 17,000 years ago

Agriculture is at risk of a crisis because of this Middle East conflict. The reason why has to do with how fertilizer is made

Andrew Scott plays World War II meteorologist James Stagg in a new film Pressure, which explores the crucial role weather forecasting played in D-Day

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China apparently didn’t issue any airspace or maritime notices ahead of the maiden launch of this rocket on Monday

Hurricane season is shaped by the ingredients needed to produce a tropical cyclone, and this year the Atlantic may be relatively quiet

A deadly Ebola outbreak is spreading fast—and U.S. cuts to foreign aid are making it worse

‘Penguin’ decays from CERN’s latest Large Hadron Collider experiment hint at weird new physics

It's not clear why the National Science Foundation may be limiting funding to certain U.S. universities

The new open-source atlas, generated by an AI tool called ESMFold2, vastly increases the known protein universe

Messier 88 is an active galaxy with a central supermassive black hole that is gobbling up gas and dust

As General Dwight D. Eisenhower prepared for D-Day, he needed a forecast. The new movie Pressure shows the tense make-or-break weather prediction that led to the successful invasion of Europe that spelled the beginning of the end of World War II

High-bandwidth memory keeps powerful AI chips fed with data, and demand for it helped Boise, Idaho–based Micron briefly top $1 trillion in market value

New-generation GLP-1 drugs, such as retatrutide, are achieving higher rates of weight loss. How much weight is too much and too fast to lose?

The latest flight of the New Glenn rocket was meant to prepare Blue Origin for a series of NASA-funded lunar voyages. Instead it ended before it began

Unseasonably hot weather in Europe has already claimed at least 18 lives. And history shows more are likely on the way

Deep surveys of the sky have turned up galaxies vastly larger than our own. Are there even bigger ones yet to be seen?

A new look at how everything from handwriting to AI quietly reshapes our bodies, habits and sense of connection

These proposed Office of Management and Budget regulations would render the federal research grant review process opaque