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Silicosis is an incurable but entirely preventable lung disease. It has only one cause: breathing in too much silica dust.…

An undated image from NASA’s Webb Space Telescope shows an outflow from a nearby still-forming star in infrared light, with…

German anaesthesiologist Joachim Boldt has an unfortunate claim to fame. According to Retraction Watch, a public database of research retractions,…

Astronaut Sunita Williams uses the treadmill onboard the ISS in 2012. The harness is visible reaching from the treadmill’s base…

A cow remains in a corral before being exported to the U.S. through the Jeronimo-Santa Teresa border crossing, as the…

When we think about flood management, higher stop banks, stronger levees and concrete barriers usually come to mind. But what…

We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western…

Just like the government uses an Aadhaar number to uniquely identify an individual for social security purposes, a person’s DNA…

Restorer Wang Nan, right patch up holes on a panel of patterned green silk with the Chinese character for “longevity”…

A 2018 artist’s concept shows the Parker Solar Probe flying into the sun’s outer atmosphere, called the corona, on a…