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The numbers paint a grim picture. Roughly half of all U.S. adults are lonely, according to a 2023 report, and nearly as many feel socially isolated. Though just as serious as other health risks, lonel ...

The more astronomers learn about the universe’s earliest galaxies, the stranger they seem. Many of their surprising properties may be explained by differences between their massive stars and tho ...

We imagine advanced alien civilizations building gigantic spaceships, Dyson spheres and empires spanning entire galaxies. But ...

A recent op-ed published in RealClearScience called for ending the Universal Service Fund (USF), which supports connectivity ...

Way back at the dawn of aviation, during a public flight exhibition of all things, a gull jammed a plane’s controls, crashing ...

We all do dishes. And we think we do it the best way. But should you rinse the suds off? Is hand-washing better on germs and ...

(via Sabine Hossenfelder) 66 million years ago an asteroid hit Earth and the dinosaurs died. The story we usually tell is ...

Exposure to sugar in the first 1,000 days of a child's life increases the risk of developing anxiety in adulthood, according to a new study from the University of Surrey published in Translational Psy ...

Alcohol use among U.S. adults has fallen for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began, though rates remain higher than pre-pandemic levels, according to a new Keck Medicine of USC study publis ...

Around 631,000 years ago — a geological blink of an eye — catastrophe unfolded in what is now north-western Wyoming, US.