Science

Be prepared to stare at the first of two full moons in October; The first will shine on this Thursday (Oct. 1) and the second will eagerly shine later this month. Halloween (. Oct. 31). It is rare to get two full moons in a month. To mark the occasion, …

American Airlines said Tuesday it will offer passengers coronavirus tests, joining United Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines and JetBlue Airways to join the preflight test. Tampa International Airport also said it would provide tests. These tests, which range from quick tests at the airport to results taken in minutes to tests taken …

In January 2016, Steven Emsley was finishing a season of studying penguin colonies near the Italian base Zuchelli station in Antarctica. With the summer approaching quickly and all the planned work completed, Dr. Emsley, an ornithologist at the University of North Carolina in Wilmington, did what a good scientist would …

Mostly U.S. The team of based researchers found that women who always reported having irregular menstrual cycles experienced higher mortality than women who reported very regular cycles in the same age range. Other potentially influential factors such as age, weight, lifestyle, contraception and family medical history have been considered in …

If life exists on Venus, NASA first discovered it in 1978. Life on Venus is still a long shot. But there is reason to take this idea seriously. On September 14, a team of scientists announced the bombshell in the journal Nature astronomy: Using a telescope, they would have detected …