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The tick that causes Lyme disease can also spread babesiosis—and researchers fear doctors in the mid-Atlantic don’t know ...

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Critics say U.K. investment in research on climate-cooling interventions, such as refreezing sea ice and brightening clouds, ...

Pugs, Persian cats, and other smushed-face cats and dogs are more similar to one another than they are to the wild animals ...

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Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific publications (many of them can be found at www.springernature.com/us). Scientific ...

A defunct spacecraft from the former Soviet Union that has been stuck in space for more than half a century is, at last, about to come home. Kosmos-482 was launched on a voyage to Venus in March ...