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Jimmy Carter wanted to see Guinea worm disease era...
Jimmy Carter hoped to outlive the Guinea worm — and he came achingly close. Carter helped lead a decades-long campaign a...
The first meteor shower of 2025 will peak this wee...
The annual Quadrantid meteor shower — the first of 2025 — is set to peak early on Friday. During that time, the shooing ...
A global treaty to curb plastic pollution failed. ...
Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš, who works to preserve marine resources, spoke about her group’s ongoing conservation efforts i...
What spaceflight owes to Jimmy Carter: The preside...
Carter is hardly remembered as a champion of NASA. But he saved the space shuttle program, and his words that have been ...
'Death by 1,000 paper cuts': How 2024 became such ...
Experts say 2024’s tornado outbreaks set it apart, even in a year full of extreme weather. The U.S. recorded the highest...
Orca who carried her dead newborn 1,000 miles give...
The killer whale who captured hearts across the world in 2018 for refusing to let go of her dead calf has given birth to...
NASA's solar probe flies closer to the sun than an...
NASA's Parker Solar Probe is expected to make a fiery dive close to the solar surface on the morning of Christmas Eve.
Discovery of 50,000-year-old baby mammoth is a big...
A team of scientists has unveiled a baby mammoth that lay almost perfectly preserved for 50,000 years in the now-melting...
Hawaii's Kilauea volcano is erupting — again
One of the most active volcanoes in the world erupted again early Monday, with lava fountains stretching more than 200 f...
New York man finds complete mastodon jaw in backya...
A man in Orange County, N.Y., discovered the teeth of a complete mastodon jaw while gardening. WNBC's Melissa Colorado r...
European satellites launched to create artificial ...
Two European satellites have launched to potentially create an artificial solar eclipse. NBC News' Gadi Schwartz speaks ...
'Mind-reading' headphones track user's brain signa...
Ramses Alcaide, CEO & Co-founder of Neurable, talks with NBC News' Gadi Schwartz about their new technology headphon...
NASA astronauts undock from space station after we...
NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut have successfully undocked from the International Space Station, making a return...
Winter weather forecast: Wetter than average for t...
NOAA's winter forecast outlook predicts above average precipitation in the Northwest and Great Lakes regions. The rest o...
Phoenix ends 21-day streak of record October heat
Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico have had unseasonably warm fall temperatures 10 to 20 degrees above average. The heat in ...
The evolutionary history of humans' ability to eat...
How humans developed the ability to digest starch: A study offers insight into the evolution of amylase genes, which are...
Photo contest reveals strange beauty of the micros...
Each year, rigorous science and dazzling artistry meet in Nikon's "Small World" photomicrography competition. See the 20...
Half of all global food threatened by growing wate...
The world has a worsening water crisis and half of all food production will be at risk of failure by the middle of this ...