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A scientist who was working on plague-causing bacteria caught the disease despite using weakened strains that were deemed noninfectious.

Earth from space Multiple spacecraft captured the moon's shadow sweeping across North America at more than 1,500 mph during the 2024 total solar eclipse, as millions of people looked up to witness totality.

Over five millennia ago, Stone Age people in Central Europe crafted wooden handles for their stone tools.

It's a story that involves scales, sloughs — and spectacles.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has teamed up with the MeerKAT radio telescope array to explore how magnetic fields affect star formation at the chaotic center of the Milky Way.

New discoveries challenge old ideas about the earliest alphabets.

If humans had a similar body ratio to the northern giant mouse lemur, their testicles would be the size of grapefruits.

Female kangaroos have one tail, two feet and three vaginas when they're giving birth.

When quantum computers become commonplace, current cryptographic systems will become obsolete. Scientists are racing to get ahead of the problem and keep our data secure.

References Smart scales track changes in your muscle mass, body fat percentage and other health metrics — but how do they work?