Ben Guarino

U.S. President Donald Trump signs a proclamation for Greek Independence Day alongside Archbishop Demetrios of America during a reception in honor of Greek Independence Day in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, March 18, 2019.

Trump’s budget plan slashes science. Here’s what would be lost.

March 19, 2019 at 7:14 a.m.

The Trump administration, in its 2020 budget plan released last week, proposed cutting billions in federal science funding. Additional details made public Monday outline what would be lost at the...

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying NASA鈥檚 Parker Solar Probe mission to the sun lifts off from Space Launch Complex-37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, on Aug. 12, 2018. The mission is humanity鈥檚 first journey to the sun.

NASA鈥檚 Parker Solar Probe launches on a mission to study the sun

August 12, 2018 at 11:58 a.m.

It was dark on Earth when NASA's Parker Solar Probe launched on its journey to endless day. The first spacecraft designed to swoop by a star took flight from Cape...

Chimpanzee nests have fewer fecal germs than human beds, study finds

May 16, 2018 at 7:07 p.m.

We all have our nightly rituals: A nightcap and a bestseller, a vigorous floss, a last compulsive scroll through Twitter. Chimpanzees, our closest genetic relatives, have their bedtime habits, too....

An orangutan at Camp Leakey on the Indonesian Island of Borneo.

The world’s orangutan population shrank by half in the last 16 years

February 15, 2018 at 9:41 p.m.

Bornean orangutans, the largest tree-dwellers on the planet, are vanishing. The population of these great apes was halved between 1999 and 2015, per an estimate published Thursday in the journal...

These December 2017 false-color images of Kuiper belt objects were taken from the farthest distance from Earth of any spacecraft ever. The photos were a test run, which is why the image on the right is a little bit off-center because the object wasn't quite where predicted.

These record-breaking pictures were taken by the farthest camera from Earth

February 10, 2018 at 9:22 p.m.

They may not look like much more than blue-green smudges, but the images are record-breakers. The machine that took these photos was farther from Earth than any other functioning camera...

A cross-section of a thick sheet of underground ice is exposed at the steep slope that appears bright blue in this enhanced-color view from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Mars hides “a fantastic find” of thick sheets of ice just below the surface

January 11, 2018 at 9:31 p.m.

The slope rises as high as London's Big Ben tower. Beneath its ruddy layer of dirt is a sheet of ice 300 feet thick that gives the landscape a blue-black...

Scientists combined 16 photo portraits into one composite image. On the left, the composite "sick" face, and on the right, the composite healthy one.

Subtle cues are what make sick people look sick

January 2, 2018 at 7:46 p.m.

The next time a friend tells you that you look sick, hear the person out. We are better than chance at detecting illness in others simply by looking at their...

Trump administration fires all members of HIV/AIDS advisory council

December 29, 2017 at 1:43 p.m.

The remaining members of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS were fired en masse this week.

The Kepler-90 planets have a similar ...

Found: Another star system with eight planets, just like ours

December 15, 2017 at 4:57 p.m.

Only a computer program, newly invented, could have detected the exoplanet in Kepler's massive database.

Women rate the strongest men as the most attractive, study finds

December 13, 2017 at 8:45 a.m.

Heterosexual male gym rats, rejoice! Women, when asked in a study to judge photos of men's bodies, rated the strongest men as the most attractive.

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