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The police program collected pinprick blood samples from somewhere between 919,282 and 1,206,962 people.

Check for suspicious activity on your phone and laptop.

Here's how it works, how it is intended to be used, and what it has in common with a famous album cover.

Experts describe what happens to the body when you ingest a battery.

The electric C4 Corvette recently turned up at a salvage yard in Illinois, along with a stack of documentation showing its origins as a secret Motorola project.

For when the only thing you want to do is finding apps.

Some lawmakers think the diet supplement industry has grown out of control.

If you're coughing in your home, you might want to check on your plants.

The Bird Migration Explorer, from the National Audubon Society and partners, shows you where birds go and how they get there.

The largest and longest-lasting algae bloom in San Francisco Bay is spreading north, racking up tens of thousands of fish kills.

Even before modern medicine, amputations weren't a death sentence.

The fossils uncovered in Wyoming reveal an ancestor of the last remaining rhynchocephalian on Earth.

NASA's 45-year-old probe is one of the farthest traveling crafts in space. But as Voyager shows its age, a new mission could seek to surpass it.

The 32nd Ig Nobel prize ceremony rewarded the most unusual and fun science the world has to offer.

All six reactors at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant are shut down. Here's how facilities like these work, and why a source of electricity is so crucial.

The famed rover has collected four samples in from an ancient river delta ion the Red Planet since July 7.

Messages got an overhaul with iOS 16, but there are older features you may have missed, too.

City residents have long resorted to low-cost, do-it-yourself remedies that may be harmful to human health.

The company's COO was pressed by members of the Senate to answer questions about the app's security.

A mycologist brewed special batches of the autumnal beverage to see how fungi species would grow.