A chance discovery by a NASA rover on Mars shows that the red planet has a form of lightning, which researchers had suspected ...

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Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of NPR's Short Wave podcast talk about the evolutionary history of kissing, how moss spores fare in space, and new clues about the collision that created the moon.

Scientists have long wondered when the domestication of dogs first started. Dogs are believed to be the first domesticated ...

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The lifeblood of Silicon Valley — advanced microchips — pumps from a science park on Taiwan's west coast, mostly from TSMC, ...

In a controversial move, the vaccine advisory group reversed a recommendations for universal immunizing of newborns intended ...

Hakeem Oluseyi, host of NOVA and GBH's podcast Particles of Thought, breaks down how his show tackles some of science's biggest and strangest questions.

Scientists have found the first compelling evidence that cognitive training can boost levels of a brain chemical that typically declines as people age. The results of this 10-week study back earlier ...

Many think it's a dangerous ploy by the tobacco industry. But some say, with millions of deaths each year attributed to smoking cigarettes, it's the lesser of two evils.

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