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An elusive fungus capable of generating quantities of a compound used to synthesize the hallucinogen LSD has finally been ...

The daily ritual of imbibing a hot cup of freshly brewed and fragrant coffee isn't just good for the soul – it may be one of the ways to smooth the road to healthy aging for women.

Seismic monitoring all over the globe registered a strange signal that repeated every 90 seconds over a whopping nine days, ...

When the New Horizons spacecraft swept past Pluto and Charon in 2015, it revealed two amazingly complex worlds and an active ...

A woman in Texas has died from a rare brain infection after flushing her nose with water stored in the tank of a recreational ...

A drug used to relieve the debilitating symptoms of menopause may also be reducing the risk of invasive breast cancer, a new clinical trial by Northwestern University suggests.

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Physicists at Fermilab have made the most precise measurement ever of a long-disputed value – the magnetic 'wiggle' of an ...

A giant mouth-like hole in the Sun about as wide as five Jupiters is blasting hot Sun breath in Earth's general direction.