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Recently, health influencers on Instagram and TikTok have been vocal about the side effect... more

Scientists know why leaves turn yellow in the fall: Chlorophyll breaks down, revealing the... more

Around 250 million years ago, one of Earth’s largest known volcanic events set off The Gre... more

Why does the New York City skyline look the way it does? In part, because of what happened... more

Ahead of Election Day tomorrow, millions of ballots are being cast in statewide, local and... more

Happy Halloween, Short Wavers! In today’s news round-up, we’ve got only treats. Hosts [Reg... more

Like haunted houses? Scientists do! That’s because they’re an excellent place to study how... more

In the face of floods, wildfires and other natural disasters, when should a community relo... more

People may think of hair loss as a guy thing. But by some estimates, half of all women exp... more

Parasites have roamed the Earth for a long time. They were here before the dinosaurs: The ... more

Around this time of year, every night, a quiet exodus is occurring. Hundreds of millions o... more

Tuberculosis – the world’s deadliest infectious disease – could be dormant in your system ... more

Some scientists looking to preserve vulnerable species have turned to a controversial tech... more

The rate of smoking cigarettes has steadily declined since the 1960s – when Congress requi... more

It's  [World Anesthesia Day] (https://wfsahq.org/news/world-anaesthesia-day-2025-anaesthes... more

Marijuana is decriminalized or legal in some form in multiple states. But, because it’s il... more

There are more human cells in your body than there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy! Cell... more

Weather in the tropics is decidedly different than it is in the middle latitudes. It turns... more