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Need a little more sun in your life?

A recent review suggested that honey could be ‘superior’ to other forms of care for the common cold, but some experts have questioned the research. So, is honey really nature’s remedy, or just an old wives’ tale?

The 1,100-year-old steel sword is nearly 3 feet long.

Science‘s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation.

No wonder the moon is inching away.

The notion of plants talking to us about dead people sounds like a bad horror movie. But that’s the theme of a recent scientific paper I co-authored.

This could be the first known planet in the universe to orbit three suns at once.

First up this week, Contributing Correspondent Kai Kupferschmidt talks with host Sarah Crespi about rising numbers of coronavirus cases in Europe. Will what we’ve learned this summer about how the virus is transmitted and treated help prevent a second peak?

In the mid-1970s, citizens across the world took to the streets to demand democracy from their governments, spurring a wave of democratization that transformed governments from Africa to Asia to Europe. But a concerning trend of democratic “backsliding” has taken place in recent years, writes the author of a new […]