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Chronic illnesses and the medications that treat them may make it harder to handle extreme heat. It’s even harder to study how.

Most people much prefer algorithms to make decisions about the redistribution of resources — but they see the outcomes of human-made decisions as more favorable.

Growing up in Nigeria, Sunday Agbonika always had a dog. One of these was a German shepherd named Skipper. Skipper did everything with his family, says Agbonika. But his experience was unusual. “[Pet] dogs weren’t such a thing in Nigeria…

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has found news clues in the longstanding mystery of why the sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona, is so much hotter than our star’s surface.

Squeaking metal can be grating on the nerves, but it serves an important purpose.

The carbonate compensation depth — a zone where high pressure and low temperature creates conditions so acidic it dissolves shell and skeleton — could make up half of the global ocean by the end of the century.

A 2021 satellite photo captured rare, wispy streaks of ice stretching across an ocean channel separating the Ronne Ice Shelf and a patch of multi-year sea ice in Antarctica.

Earth was hit by a “severe” G4-class geomagnetic storm on Monday morning, increasing the chances of auroras in the northern U.S. tonight.

The European Space Agency’s Gaia space telescope has found evidence of more than 350 previously unknown moons orbiting asteroids within our solar system.

There’s now an option to treat anaphylaxis via a nasal spray, rather than with an auto-injected medication.