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Older adults are at higher risk of suffering health consequences during heat waves. Fans may not do enough to prevent that.

Motion capture requires special equipment and infrastructure that can cost upward of $100,000 — but scientists have created a smartphone app and AI algorithm to do the same job.

Above the cloud tops, thunderstorms throb with a complex, frenzied light show. But these bright flashes cannot be seen with the eye. They give off a type of invisible, high-energy light known as gamma rays. NASA’s ER-2 aircraft has now…

From Roman “fish scale” armor to Japanese samurai suits, these examples of battle armor were designed to protect and impress.

A 2014 photo shows a massive, iceberg-littered pool of vibrant blue meltwater sitting alone on top of a glacier in Alaska. Similar “melt ponds” are becoming increasingly common in the Arctic due to climate change and are further accelerating the…

This powerful Newtonian reflector telescope has hundreds of 5-star Amazon reviews and a previous Black Friday best price-beating discount.

The new city, dubbed Valeriana, was a dense urban settlement with temple pyramids and a ball court.

Researchers have found that forensic “DNA mixture analysis” is less accurate for certain groups of people with lower genetic diversity, which could falsely link them to crime scenes.

Language processing happens at speeds significantly faster than it takes to speak one word aloud.

Around 1,200 years ago, a cat “made biscuits” in a drying clay jug in Jerusalem, leaving behind the oldest evidence of kneading on record.