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Image copyright PlantLife A plant charity is predicting a boost for wild flowers because some councils have stopped mowing verges

Add U.S. coal to the list of industries threatened by the novel coronavirus. Part of its problem is conditions that

A viral outbreak has killed more than 6,500 children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and is still

For about a week in 1960, radio astronomer Frank Drake thought he might have discovered aliens. He had pointed the

Margaret Burbidge, an astronomer who made vital contributions to our understanding of what happens inside stars and who worked on

It is lunchtime on a Sunday in January. At a long table inside a delicatessen in midtown Manhattan, a group

Living through the COVID-19 pandemic, we are all now seeing the consequences of a failure to plan ahead when an

If everyone had to rely on flash memory—the data-storage system used in memory cards and thumb drives—the amount of information

The federal government has encouraged health centers to delay nonessential surgeries while weighing the severity of patients’ conditions and the

Image copyright Umberto Lombardo Image caption The forest islands of this part of Bolivia seen from the air Far from