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As heatwaves become more frequent and severe, scientists are studying whether heat acclimation can help protect vulnerable populations.

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Meteoritics is the study of meteorites — solid parts of asteroids or comets that have landed on another celestial body, notably (but not limited to) the Earth. Measuring the composition of meteorites ...

While scientists have a decent understanding of how sauna and other forms of heat exposure exercises our cardiovascular ...

Brown fat burns fuel to make heat, and this activity is controlled by the body clock: It drops during sleep and rises before ...

Cooling a home overnight may not be enough to protect older adults from the physiological effects of repeated daytime indoor ...

An NPR investigation finds that heat kills thousands of Americans every year. But official records radically undercount the toll. In this series, we are bringing you stories that reveal why this ...

In 1959, Soviet geneticist Dmitri Belyaev began an experiment designed to study domestication as it happened. He selected silver foxes, a color variant of the red fox that had long been bred on fur ...

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Scientists have put one of humanity's strangest questions to the test: can our consciousness actually leave the body and see things somewhere else? The experiment didn't prove it can. But something ...