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A typical pregnancy lasts 40 weeks, but for about 1 in 10 pregnant women labor begins too soon. Premature or preterm birth is the leading cause of newborn deaths worldwide. Yet doctors have struggled to understand why preterm birth occurs—or how to predict which pregnancies are at highest risk.
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The two warmest time periods on Earth in the past 140 million years drove both mass extinctions and explosions in plant diversity, according to researchers in Australia and Austria who say this could…
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope caught water clouds thickening and thinning on a brown dwarf, a first beyond our solar system.
Scientists are racing to explain why hundreds of southern right whale calves have died this year in Argentine Patagonia, and the first clues are starting to emerge.
Until now, the alien white-hot worlds of exoplanets have been depicted as circular, but new research has revealed the true shape of their atmospheres to be a deformed sphere rather than a perfect…
Deforestation slowed worldwide last year, but the improvement is unlikely to last as the situation deteriorates in Central Africa and an exceptionally strong El Niño weather pattern intensifies, a new…
The data behind Blue Zones might not be that strong
