NOAA’s Hurricane Hunter airplane missions significantly increase the accuracy of hurricane forecasts, but President Trump’s ...

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A Denisovan skull has been identified for the first time. The find was based on proteins and calcified dental plaque ...

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Gravitational assists are an emblematic example of why space travel is hard —it is exactly rocket science, after all. Gravity ...

SpaceX is still looking into what happened on Flight 9, an investigation overseen by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration ...

Thirty of the world’s most renowned mathematicians traveled to Berkeley, Calif., with some coming from as far away as the U.K ...

Hundreds of trans people, activists and supporters rally outside of the Supreme Court of the United States in Washington, D.C ...

Gaia, Europe’s Milky Way–mapping spacecraft, shut down earlier this year. It was arguably the most important—and most ...

Health specialists were put on leave, and a report on how to protect 20 million workers from wildfire smoke has stalled ...

Screwworm parasites primarily infect livestock, but human cases have risen in Central America after the pests escaped ...

New research shows father-daughter relationships have a positive influence on female baboons’ lives—when the dads stick ...