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By James Dinneen The New Melones Reservoir in CaliforniaGeorge Rose/Getty Images California’s Central Valley has lost roughly 85 cubic kilometres...

The world’s biggest digital camera is finally coming into focus. While a very powerful personal camera might have megapixel resolution,...

As Hurricane Rita bore down on the bayous of southeastern Texas in 2005, Caitlin Eaves’s family made the wrenching decision...

By Leah Crane South-western North America is experiencing a megadroughtNASA Earth Observatory South-western North America is deep in a drought,...

Wartime contamination is happening indirectly as well, Denisov says. During normal operations, coal mines in Donbas, for instance, have to...

Americans have long been proud of our federalism, the way that we divide governmental power between the states and national...

In a tournament of the first world war strategy game Diplomacy, two AIs built by Facebook's parent company Meta outplayed...

Like anything else, water is great in moderation—urbanites need it to survive, but downpours can flood streets and homes. And...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Every year around...

People who have had covid-19 can have lingering impairments in multiple aspects of cognition, but memory appears to be less...

The candidate that’s farthest along is the single-dose ChAd3 Ebola Sudan vaccine, which is being developed by the Sabin Vaccine...

Starting Monday, consumers will be able to buy hearing aids directly off store shelves and at dramatically lower prices as...

A gamma ray burst about 2.4 billion light years away is being called “the BOAT” – the brightest of all...

As unease about Russia's nuclear saber-rattling grows, along with concerns about the safety of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, officials...

With a few notable exceptions—such as during the 1918 influenza pandemic, World War II and the HIV crisis—life expectancy in...

Liver transplants from older donors have lasted up to 108 years, and survive longer than those from younger donors, raising...