Lake Karachay was once an ordinary body of water in the Ural Mountains. Soviet authorities used it as a dumping ground for ...

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The IAEA has launched a six-month global webinar series on artificial intelligence in radiation medicine, drawing over 3200 registrants worldwide to navigate the evolving landscape of artificial ...

As the weather grows cold this winter, you may be one of the many Americans pulling their winter jackets out of the closet.

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Particle and nuclear physics evokes evokes images of huge accelerators probing the extremes of matter. But in this round-up ...

Routine mammograms are best known as a front-line tool for detecting breast cancer. But new research suggests the same X-ray ...

For years, popular culture has treated a human settlement on Mars as an almost inevitable next chapter, a matter of engineering and willpower rather than fundamental limits. Astrophysicist Neil ...

The Northern Pikeminnow Sport Reward Program pays anglers for catching northern pikeminnow in the Columbia and Snake rivers. In 2025, one angler received a record-winning sum of just over $164,000 for ...

The condition that mammograms can detect — and act as an early warning of heart problems down the road — is called breast arterial calcification, said Matthew Nudy, an assistant professor of medicine ...