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Plus, some important news from your favorite puzzler.
The shoe — discovered at a nearly 2,000-year-old fort near a Bavarian village — consists of a sole with iron nails for traversing "rough terrain"
Infrared mapping tech aboard the spacecraft sheds light on the volcanic activity of Io, Jupiter's second-smallest Galilean moon
28-year-old John Nicholas of Chicago is the first person to have undergone an awake kidney transplant, according to doctors at Northwestern Medicine.
We take it for granted that all stars eventually die, but a quirk involving dark matter suggests those near the galactic core may last forever.
Over 5% of adults are thought to have the chronic skin condition, but far fewer than that ever seek treatment for it.
69 male skeletons from an Egyptian necropolis reveal that hunching over to write caused just as much pain in ancient times.
From bears to birds, the brutal circle of life occasionally begets moments of anthropomorphic levity.
The reentry of defunct satellites is anticipated to increase the amount of harmful chemicals in the atmosphere by nearly 650% over natural levels.
The defunct satellite broke apart into more than 100 pieces, raising speculation that it may be the result of an anti-satellite missile test.
The last mammoths on Earth survived centuries of genetic drift before dying out some 4,000 years ago, but the ultimate cause of their demise remains unknown.
The 3D visualization is the most detailed multi-wavelength video of the massive celestial structure.
The poached horns will also set off alarms built for finding nuclear bombs around the world.
After recent frustrations with postponed spacewalks, a key partner for developing new ISS spacesuits for NASA has pulled out, adding insult to injury.
Prescriptions for birth control and emergency contraception have declined more in states that passed abortion bans following Dobbs , new research shows.
Dozens of obesity and diabetes treatments are in the pipeline, some of which may help people lose even more weight than existing drugs like semaglutide.
The rocket took flight on Tuesday, on a course to deliver NOAA's GOES-U satellite to geostationary transfer orbit.
The space agency tossed a massive pallet of old batteries from the ISS, and a piece of it fell through a family's roof.
Frightening video shows what appears to be the rocket booster crashing down on a populated area, trailed by a yellow-ish cloud.
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