Just 22 people contracted polio in 2017. It's a whisper away from eradication, but due to the challenges involved in getting the vaccine to where it's needed most, the extinction of the polio virus in the wild remains just out of reach.

Physicists Discover a Fundamentally New State of Matter at Ultra-High Pressures

Have you ever stopped to wonder exactly how much light has been produced by all the stars in the Universe, over all the time that has passed? Well, now you can wonder no more. An international team of astronomers has actually calculated the amount

Jumping spiders are already among the most adorable members of the arachnid order, but we're ready to give them the prize, officially. A species of ant-mimicking jumping spider has just been found suckling its babies on milk. You know what else doe

If classic monster movies and old science experiments are to be believed, life begins with a spark.

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Sun-dimming sky chemical
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Obesity is a disease where people accumulate more and more fat. When they reach a certain point, their fat stops working and they develop disease, such as type 2 diabetes. But not all fat is bad.

We know that even a grain of dust or tiny droplet can damage a tough metal surface if the particle gathers up a high-enough speed when it smashes into it.

A former NASA astronaut says the agency he used to work for has a duty to protect civilians from killer asteroids, but that it isn't meeting that obligation.

Laser labs sense gravitational waves from a black hole collision at least five billion light-years away.

The first Russian rocket to fly with people since a harrowing failure two months ago blasted off Monday morning in a successful return to flight.

Last month, new research from Harvard and Yale led to a flurry of news claiming scientists were proposing to 'dim the Sun' in an "ingenious but as-yet-unproven way to tackle climate change".

We humans are very curious about the nuclear furnace that powers life on Earth. We've looked at the Sun in so many different ways, both Earth-based and space-based. Yet we've had a really hard time getting a glimpse of its poles.

While we have yet to figure out how to travel by warp drive, we have found other ways for spacecraft to propel themselves at mind-boggling speeds across vast distances of outer space.

It's official. At 2:23 am in southern China, a rocket carrying unique payload successfully launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center.

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As someone who has clocked an unseemly amount of hours on an MMO, I'm no stranger to the guilt that can come from habitual gaming.