News

  1. Health & Medicine

    Cancer screening and quitting smoking have saved nearly 6 million lives

    Prevention, screening and treatment advances combined stopped 5.94 million deaths from cancer in the United States from 1975 through 2020.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  2. Anthropology

    Humans have linked emotions to the same body parts for 3,000 years

    3,000-year-old clay tablets show that some associations between emotion and parts of the body have remained the same for millennia.

    By Jason Bittel
  3. Space

    The 2024 eclipse gave a rare view of the sun. Here’s a peek at early data

    Teams are starting to analyze data from the total solar eclipse to learn more about the sun’s corona, gravity waves and changes in Earth’s ionosphere.