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[CLOCK TICKING] Most American families know someone living with Alzheimer’s or struggling with addiction. This report follows research into both problems and the pioneering neuroscientist leading that work. Dr. Ali...
Tonight, Americans racing to take advantage of clean energy tax credits face a shrinking window: incentives for home solar and other technologies expire at the end of the year. CBS reporter Nikole Killion says some...
Each autumn, millions of monarch butterflies make a long, multigenerational trek to central Mexico. Until recently scientists studied that journey mainly by counting large groups and mapping overwintering sites. Now...
A telescope in Chile has captured a dramatic new view of a winged cosmic spectacle. The National Science Foundation’s NOIRLab released the photograph showing the bright, billowing lobes of the bipolar planetary nebula...
Scientists report that NASA's Perseverance rover has recorded the crackling of electrical discharges on Mars, captured by the microphone mounted on the rover's mast. A French-led team published findings saying the...
Scientists say a mysterious foot fossil unearthed in northeastern Ethiopia belongs to a little-known ancient human relative, offering new insight into how multiple early hominins shared the landscape more than three...
Updated Nov. 27, 2025 — 5:52 AM EST NASA astronaut Christopher “Chris” Williams launched to the International Space Station Thursday alongside two Russian cosmonauts, lifting off from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome on...
How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop? That age-old question sent correspondent Nancy Giles across the country to peel back the story of the chewy Tootsie Roll and its hard-shelled lollipop...
In 1996 two young men walking along the Columbia River near Kennewick, Washington, uncovered a human skull. Authorities and researchers quickly recognized the remains as ancient. An archaeological excavation recovered a...
Off the Irish coast, the wreck of the luxury liner Lusitania rests on the seabed. Torpedoed by a German submarine during World War I, the ship sank, killing nearly 1,200 people. More than a century later, key details...
Conor Knighton stumbled on a small mystery at Crater Lake National Park in Oregon: a weathered, 30-foot log that has bobbed on the lake for roughly 120 years and captured the imagination of visitors and rangers alike.
A weekend update to X revealed that many accounts presenting as U.S. political commentators are actually operated from abroad. Profiles with names like @TRUMP_ARMY and @MAGANationX, displaying Trump portraits, rally...
