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December's full moon, known as the Cold Moon, illuminates the longest nights of the year. Despite its name, the moon doesn't ...

Scientists have uncovered how too much sunlight can flip a hidden switch inside skin cells that makes inflammation spiral out ...

Thousands of children are part of a faceless legion of underage workers in California who put fresh fruit and vegetables on America’s tables.

“Mineral-only” sunscreens are making huge inroads into the sunscreen market, driven by fears of “chemicals”, a belief that “mineral” products are inherently safer, and confusion about how sunscreens ...

Nostalgia Meets Neuroscience The popular image of the 1960s and 70s childhood is one of free-range freedom: wood-paneled station wagons, bicycles without helmets, and a general ...

Make sure your angles are in units of radians (not degrees), where 2π radians = 360 degrees. But after that you will get the ...

NASA has drafted its Mars rover Perseverance to help monitor the sun’s activity. Every day for the next two months, the rover ...

A technique called interferometry can greatly magnify tiny objects on the sky, and is powerful enough to reveal the surfaces ...

The Moon is getting 1½ inches (3.8 centimeters) farther away from the Earth every year. Scientists measure the distance to ...

A recent study examined changes in tree canopy cover around California schools. The observed declines could put kids at ...

The turkey therapy programs go on all year long, but The Gentle Barn, which also has a location in California, is also ...