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Bad news, earthlings. Computer simulations of the solar system’s future reveal a new risk facing us all: The gravitational tug…

When a baby born in Philadelphia was announced as the first person to get a gene therapy designed just for…

Brain cells named for stars are finally getting their time to shine. Three distinct studies, published May 15 in Science,…

This month, we visit a trendy (but fictional) spa with an unusual feature: hot mud beds. You lay a plastic…

It’s a matter of size A January executive order by President Donald Trump designates people as female if they make…

Nancy Shute is editor in chief of Science News Media Group. Previously, she was an editor at NPR and US…

The earliest cities may have had plenty of parasitic, six-legged tenants.  Common bedbugs (Cimex lectularius) experienced a dramatic jump in…

The oldest known fossil of a singing cicada reveals that these insects were making music during the Eocene epoch —…

Western Europeans crafted hunting weapons out of bones from whales stranded on the Atlantic shoreline between 20,000 and 14,000 years…