SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

A new big-data analysis of the U.S. pinpoints how urban design aids the health of city residents...

The guidelines recommend when to suspect PMOS, how to assess women and how to diagnose the condition.They also say PMOS should not be discounted in women who have been through the menopause. PMOS is thought to be more common...

A review into maternity safety in England was changed just days before publication to remove criticism of a "normal birth drive", according to a former member of the inquiry team.The campaign, which encourages vaginal birth without any medical intervention...

NASA provided an Artemis update today (June 30), announcing new lunar landing contracts for its Moon Base initiative and a surprise new possible rover mission that could be headed to the moon's south pole.During the second monthly update that...

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A huntsman spider found in Queensland, Australia, has been crowned the fastest spider in the world with a top...

A newly discovered microbe is like a mini version of the Hulk.Euplotes gigatrox is a single-celled protist that resembles an insect. It grazes on bacteria and other tiny microbes. Sometimes a small number of the protists balloon into “supergiants”...

This week's trip into the hall-of-mirrors of modern youth culture features a new piece of post-meaning slang, another poisonous dispatch from the incel...

Mirrors are tricky. Even humans aren’t born with an intuitive understanding of them; we have to learn how they work. Now, scientists have discovered that the California two-spot octopus (Octopus bimaculoides) can also learn to use mirrors, researchers report...

The NASA Ames Science Directorate recognizes the outstanding contributions of (pictured left to right) Sungshin Choi, Yi-Chun Chen, Emma Yates, Eduardo Bendek. Their commitment to the NASA mission represents the entrepreneurial spirit, technical expertise, and collaborative disposition needed to...