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U.S. This year has seen surprising epidemics, but the resurgence has been unprecedented. With the weather getting increasingly cold and the holidays approaching, experts have warned that cases, hospitalizations and fatalities could get worse before the spikes improve. Saturday was the 19th day in a row that the U.S. registered …

We mentioned back in August Gust that a cable failure at the iconic Arecibo Observatory caused significant damage to the dish of the radio telescope. Unfortunately, another cable from the radio observatory has failed, and the famous 1000-foot diameter radio telescope will have to be dismantled. An engineering firm called …

Jupiter and Saturn may appear to be spinning and whirling, but they are stormy storms that are literally and otherwise out of this world. Nothing like this happens on earth. Fierce storms on these gas giants were thought to have originated from the atmosphere below, as they have on our …

In 2017, more than 16,000 people died of HIV, and about 5,500 of those deaths were due to HIV-related causes, making the virus one of the top 10 leading causes of death in some groups. “There’s still a long way to go,” said Karin Bosch, a CDC epidemiologist who led …

A Falcon 9 rocket took off from the Waldenberg Air Force Base with the Sentinel-6 Michael Freelich oceanographic satellite. Credit: SpaceX A European-built satellite with the unusual shape of a building launched into orbit on Saturday on the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket off the central coast of California, carrying a …