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Officials say they’ve eradicated northern giant hornets, nicknamed “murder hornets,” after years of tracking the invasive giant wasps in Washington state.

COVID-era telehealth laws made health care more accessible for rural patients, but telehealth might not be as easy to access next year.

Scientists investigating the frozen Lake Enigma in Antarctica discovered an ecosystem teeming with strange microbial communities.

Women with Stage 0 breast cancer who got biannual mammograms and delayed surgery for two years fared as well as those who got immediate surgery.

The declaration of a state of emergency in California over avian influenza comes within days of the first severe human case of bird flu in the U.S.

The Denmark Strait cataract is a sloping portion of the seafloor between Iceland and Greenland that funnels cold water from the Nordic Seas into the Irminger Sea, fueling Atlantic Ocean currents.

This is another in our series of stories identifying new technologies and actions that can slow climate change, reduce its impacts or help communities cope with a rapidly changing world. Today, many people regularly live with dangerous summer heat. To stay cool, most…

A new magnetic survey of the ancient Assyrian capital of Khorsabad has revealed several structures, including a villa, buried underground.

A Japanese astronomer captured several impacts on the moon during the Geminid meteor shower.

With legs and wings, the RAVEN can take off with no runway, and even hop along the ground.