Sushmita Pathak is a multimedia editor at Scientific American and a producer of Science Quickly. She previously worked at NPR ...

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One of NASA’s workhorse spacecraft in orbit around Mars has fallen silent, leaving agency personnel scrambling to ...

French health officials are trying to trace all the contacts of two men who contracted MERS, a potentially lethal disease ...

An idea about the sun’s magnetic field called the terminator model could help predict dangerous space weather more accurately ...

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Hawaii’s Kilauea, one of Earth’s most active volcanoes, sent lava fountains spewing into the air, obliterating a U.S.

Sam Meadows is a freelance journalist based in South America. He covers environmental issues, conservation, wildlife crime ...

X-ray space telescopes caught a supermassive blackhole flinging matter into space at a fifth of the speed of light ...