Scientists continue to rethink the idea that moderate drinking offers health benefits.

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Weeks before Europa Clipper was to be shipped for launch, scientists discovered a potentially fatal flaw that might endanger the spacecraft’s ability to study an ocean moon of Jupiter.

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Researchers have found several promising ways to thwart the fungus, which causes the deadly white-nose syndrome in bats.

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Astronomers have found evidence of a process that supports an alternative, more rapid approach to planetary formation, more top down than bottom up.

We often focus on doomsday scenarios, but we shouldn’t let them distract us from other consequences of climate change like impaired learning, crime, suicide — even slipping off ladders.

The weird, mostly bad science of nominative determinism.

The body mass index has long been criticized as a flawed indicator of health. A replacement has been gaining support: the body roundness index.

Stressing science education, China is outpacing other countries in research fields like battery chemistry, crucial to its lead in electric vehicles.

The Chang’e-6 mission’s sample, which might hold clues about the origins of the moon and Earth, is the latest achievement of China’s lunar exploration program.