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American men are much more likely to pursue strength training than women. CDC data published in May 2022 revealed that 35.2% of adult men and 26.9% of adult women met the federal guideline for ...

In October2026, the Environmental Protection Agency must release its decision on the use of America's most widely used herbicide, glyphosate. It will mark a milestone in the 15-year registration ...

Roughly 40 percent of adult Americans are considered obese, and weight-loss drugs have come to play a central role in medical treatment over the past few years. As of the spring of 2024, one in eight ...

Antarctica has long been seen as a remote, unchanging environment. Not any more. The ice-covered continent and the surrounding Southern Ocean are undergoing abrupt and alarming changes. Sea ice is ...

Even if you don't recall many facts from high school biology, you likely remember the cells required for making babies: egg and sperm. Maybe you can picture a swarm of sperm cells battling each ...

Goddess Mayehuatzin with a mature agave and a pot of fermented pulque. (Public Domain) The Mexica people ruled the Aztec Empire in the Valley of Mexico for its roughly 90-year duration ...

When most people think of COVID now, they picture a short illness like a cold - a few days of fever, sore throat or cough before getting better. But for many, the story doesn't end there. Long ...

When scientists cracked the human genome in 2003 - sequencing the entire genetic code of a human being - many expected it would unlock the secrets of disease. But genetics explained only about ...

For years, health authorities have warned against red meat consumption, with the World Health Organization's cancer research arm classifying it as "probably carcinogenic to humans". But a ...

Astronomer and science communicator Carl Sagan had - and almost three decades after his untimely death, still has - a great many fans amongst the general public. Sagan's fellow scientists, on the ...