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Wormholes are often imagined as tunnels through space or time -- shortcuts across the universe. But this image rests on a misunderstanding of work by physicists Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen. In ...

Over the past ninety years, Americans have told pollsters they're increasingly willing to vote for a female candidate for president, from just 33 percent in 1937 to 93 percent in 2024, according to ...

Time feels like the most basic feature of reality. Seconds tick, days pass and everything from planetary motion to human memory seems to unfold along a single, irreversible direction. We are born ...

For most people, cold weather is an inconvenience, requiring an extra layer of clothing or the thermostat to be turned up. For others, exposure to cold can trigger an allergic reaction severe enough ...

Younger adults are already contending with mysteriously higher rates of cancer than their parents and grandparents. Emerging research now shows that the same is true for stroke. For much of the past ...

Huntington's disease (HD) has long been impossible to cure, but new research is finally giving fresh hope. HD is a progressive, hereditary brain disease that affects movement, cognition and ...

The new Dietary Guidelines have been announced. They recommend that Americans of all ages eat animal protein, dairy, vegetables, fruits, and healthy fats. What are not recommended are sweet or ...

Last year, astronomers were fascinated by a runaway asteroid passing through our Solar System from somewhere far beyond. It was moving at around 68 kilometres per second, just over double Earth's ...

In October 1945, George Orwell responded to a letter from Mr J. Stewart Cook in the leftwing weekly newspaper Tribune calling for more science education. The call can hardly have come as a surprise ...

Hundreds of millions of Americans are presently besieged by a massive arctic blast and winter storm. Luckily for them, it will only be temporary. That wasn't the case 20,000 years ago ...