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Infectious bird flu virus was found in milk, on equipment, within wastewater and aerosolized in the air on California dairy farms

A devastating bacterium has decimated populations of sunflower sea stars, predators that play a crucial role in their environment

Fifty-eight people have been infected—and two have died—in a New York City outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease—a severe type of pneumonia caused by a bacterium commonly associated with air-conditioning systems and cooling towers

Spurred by competition from China and Russia, the Trump administration is pushing for nuclear power on the moon by 2030

Companies are adapting this humble clay-based ceramic to keep people cool—without electricity

Birds are starting to make their way south for the winter, and you’ve got a front-row seat to the show

When she was just 17 years old, Hannah Cairo disproved the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, breaking a four-decade-old mathematical assumption

Kids crave approval from their peers. Chatbots offer an alternative to IRL relationships, but they can come at a price  

The Krasheninnikov volcano, located less than 150 miles away from the epicenter of Russia’s July 29 earthquake, began erupting on August 3

Can “finitism” possibly describe the real world?

JWST observations of light sources before the first galaxies should have formed are raising new questions about our galactic origins

The lowdown on the Environmental Protection Agency’s move to repeal of the “endangerment” finding. Also, how did a juicy ketchup ingredient help create a starchy tuber?