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Experts explain how to shorten a flu infection.

A new U.N. report has found the world will warm by twice the 1.5-degree-Celsius target adopted in the Paris Agreement by 2100 if countries fail to slash greenhouse gas emissions right now.

The James Webb Space Telescope may have found dozens of elusive brown dwarfs — strange objects larger than planets but smaller than stars — beyond the Milky Way for the first time ever.

Archaeologists in Sweden were expecting to find an ancient settlement, but they were surprised to discover a Viking Age cemetery with boat-shaped burial outlines.

A new imaging technique enabled scientists to film every step of ovulation as it unfolds in mouse cells.

Complications that arise after surgery are more likely to be underrecognized and undertreated in women than in men, leading to higher death rates, new research suggests. Why?

Motion capture requires special equipment and infrastructure that can cost upward of $100,000 — but scientists have created a smartphone app and AI algorithm to do the same job.

From Roman "fish scale" armor to Japanese samurai suits, these examples of battle armor were designed to protect and impress.

A 2014 photo shows a massive, iceberg-littered pool of vibrant blue meltwater sitting alone on top of a glacier in Alaska. Similar "melt ponds" are becoming increasingly common in the Arctic due to climate change and are further accelerating the rate of ice loss across the region.

The new city, dubbed Valeriana, was a dense urban settlement with temple pyramids and a ball court.

Researchers have found that forensic "DNA mixture analysis" is less accurate for certain groups of people with lower genetic diversity, which could falsely link them to crime scenes.