On the Silk Road, these lost twin cities may have sustained themselves in a foreboding landscape with metallurgy and commerce ...

Supermassive black holes can expel jets of material so vast and powerful that they may shape the large-scale structure of the ...

Oregon decriminalized hard drugs in 2021 and recriminalized them last month. A new analysis shows the laws likely had little ...

The Heiltsuk of British Columbia are using a mix of traditional principles and modern implementation to protect salmon and ...

In Absolution, the fourth novel in Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach saga, scientists try to know the unknowable ...

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A small study of people with congenital anosmia found changes in breathing that suggest the condition may affect more than ...

People recovering from substance use disorders need homes, jobs and medication-centered, quality health care, not just a bed ...

A gigantic space rock that slammed into Earth more than three billion years ago grievously wounded the biosphere—and then ...

Gentle nasal spray vaccines against COVID, the flu and RSV are coming. They may work better than shots in the arm ...

For example, he and his colleagues found that the empty set takes more time for people to process than the symbolic numeral 0 ...

Observations from a retrofitted spy plane hint at a connection between powerful gamma-ray flashes and a thunderstorm’s ...