A new study published in Nature Communications shows, for the first time, how heat moves—or rather, doesn't—between materials in a high-energy-density plasma state. The work is expected to ...

The Department of the Air Force’s process for determining if airmen and Space Force guardians should receive medical waivers for shaving is about as indecipherable as the infamous flow chart ...

Robinson, an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Duke University School of Medicine who studies hysterectomy rates. “There’s not a clear sense, is this being delivered at the ...

This fossil palm leaf (Sabalites sp.), discovered in Petersburg Borough, Alaska, is on display in “The David H. Koch Hall of Fossils—Deep Time” at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.

A new study co-led by the Smithsonian and the University of Arizona offers the most detailed glimpse yet of how Earth's surface temperature has changed over the past 485 million years. In a paper ...

The year-long study — called "Miracle on Myrtle" — will create a roadmap for reversing the decades-long decline in a part of town where about 5,000 people live. A previous round of investment ...

SCAPIS (Swedish CArdioPulmonary bioImage Study) is a Swedish population study that recruits and examines the heart and lung status of 30,000 randomly invited women and men aged 50 to 64.

The longest-lived breeds of cats, including Birmans and Burmese, live more than twice as long as the shortest-lived breed, according to a study of thousands of pet cats in the UK. “In terms of ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...