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A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed more than 775,000 people worldwide. More than 21.7 million people worldwide have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new respiratory virus, according to data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. The …

Illustration: Elena Scotti. Photos: Getty Images Image nuts swaying with plant life, oceans swaying with life, dinosaurs running across the Earth. Imagine that plants and animals die, and over the course of 300 million years, coal, oil and gas become complex series of processes underground. Fast forward to the present …

The Pentagon’s announcement that it will set up a task force to “detect, analyze and catalog” unidentified aerial phenomena is a welcome addition to the now highly public search for UFOs, albeit one of its own controversy, according to one expert. “I support this initiative, which is rightly framing the …

Earth is a truly magical place. We know it’s not the kind of thing you would expect to read on a science website, but just a look at the photo above – a pre-dawn photo taken by an Expedition 62 crew member on the International Space Station (ISS) back in …

Then there are data from an analysis of 763,256 mammography screenings done between 2007 and 2017 that found cancer in 3,944 women, 10 percent of whom were 75 and older. The study’s author, Dr. Stamatia Destounis, a radiologist at Elizabeth Wende Breast Care in Rochester, NY, reported that most of …