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Experts explain why the public empathize with some killers and not others ...

New research from the American Medical Association finds that Americans are an outlier when it comes to illness ...

Scientists and companies increasingly support blocking some sunlight to avoid the worst impacts of global heating ...

Trump has declared a war on government scientists as he denies climate change and pursues a pro-fossil fuel agenda ...

The phrase grabs people's attention, but some scientists argue it's doing more harm than good ...

Contraception is not directly implicated by limited abortion access, yet it's profoundly impacted, researchers say ...

Fasting is rooted in our evolutionary history, but is it safe? Here's what experts say it really does to the body ...

In "Pillars of Creation," Richard Panek shows how the James Webb Space Telescope is altering our view of the cosmos ...

The European Space Agency billed the event as a tech demo ...

New research using clearer images from JWST are further complicating the so-called Hubble tension ...