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Earth-bound landmarks ravaged by war, climate change, tourism and other threats also landed in the World Monuments Watch report.

As firefighters battle the Eaton and Palisades fires in Southern California, strong Santa Ana winds are hitting the fire-ravaged region again — posing renewed risks for the fires to spread and for new ones to spark.

Have you ever experienced a stomach-in-knots kind of workweek or a series of not-so-solid (literally) bowel movements and thought, Could I have a gut issue? You’d be far from alone.

The researcher, who teaches at Columbia University, has been promoting the new National Center for Neurotechnology in his native Spain. The institute will manufacture devices capable of tapping the human mind and modifying it

Cats — both large cats in captivity and pet house cats — across multiple states have been dying from H5N1 bird flu. Now, federal agencies are enforcing new rules to help keep the virus out of pet food.

When a magnetar within the Milky Way galaxy belched out a flare of colossally powerful radio waves in 2020, scientists finally had concrete evidence to pin down an origin for fast radio bursts. A mind-blowing new study has now narrowed down the mechanism.

I keep hearing about so many different supplements on social media. Which one do you most often recommend to your patients? In most cases, the supposed benefits of supplements popularized on social media aren’t backed by strong data.

“Sleep is a non-negotiable biological state required for the maintenance of human life.…our need for sleep parallels those for air, food, and water.

The many fires burning around Los Angeles are pressing the limits of firefighting. In an ember storm, every opening in a house is a portal to hell. A vent without a screen, a crack in the siding, a missing roof tile—each is an opportunity for a spark to smolder.

Heat is supposed to destroy anything it touches. But physicists have shown that an idealized form of magnetism is heatproof. Introduction Sunlight melts snowflakes. Fire turns logs into soot and smoke. A hot oven will make a magnet lose its pull.