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What's the moon showing tonight?

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an urgent warning about tianeptine - a substance marketed as a dietary supplement but known on the street as "gas station heroin".

Scientists find out how the epic deep sea migration of a tiny animal is storing planet-warming carbon.

A new study has found that leprosy was circulating in Chile some 4,000 years ago, meaning the disease arrived in the Americas much earlier than previously thought.

A survey of more than 1,000 American teen drivers has found they spend about 21 percent of each drive looking at their phones.

A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago shows that forests in many parts of the world were wiped out, disrupting the carbon cycle and ensuring that Earth remained hot for millions of years ...

Colin Foord discusses the Coral City Camera.

Hot dog eating contests may look like a gross display of ravenous gluttony, but there's actually a science behind eating dozens of hot dogs in mere minutes.

The women are raising larvae of the endangered Taylor's checkerspot for release into the wild ...

We know that processed meat isn't particularly good for us, having already been linked to dementia, diabetes, and cancer, but how much of it counts as a 'safe' level of consumption? According to new research, there's no such thing.