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A federal bank that finances projects overseas voted Thursday to put $500 million toward an oil and gas project in Bahrain, a transaction that critics said was out of step with President...

The third try turned out to be closer to the charm for Elon Musk and SpaceX, as his company’s mammoth Starship rocket launched on Thursday and traveled about halfway around the Earth...

Updated March 14, 2024, 6:03 a.m. ETMarch 14, 2024, 6:03 a.m. ETSpaceX is trying for a third time to launch Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, on a journey part of the...

After he was paralyzed by polio at age 6, Paul Alexander was confined for much of his life to a yellow iron lung that kept him alive. He was not expected to...

Early detection of colon cancer can prevent a majority of deaths from this disease, possibly as much as 73 percent of them. But just 50 to 75 percent of middle-aged and older...

Through his office window, the head of Brazil’s state-run oil company looked out at the cluttered landscape of Rio de Janeiro. Looking back at him, across the city’s run-down high-rises, was the...

Female elephant seals are not delicate creatures. They are rippling tubes of muscle and blubber that can weigh more than 1,000 pounds. Still, female elephant seals are absolutely dwarfed by their male...

The talk received millions of views and thousands of comments, many from nurses grateful that someone in the medical field validated what they have long understood. Others, too, posted personal stories of...

Lost & Found This 1,000-Year-Old Smartphone Just Dialed In By Franz Lidz and Clara VannucciFor 2,000 years, celestial observers mapped the heavens with astonishingly precise instruments called astrolabes.Resembling large, old-fashioned vest pocket...

Scientists have discovered that blind cave salamanders in northern Italy leave their underground homes to go on expeditions to the surface.Eyeless and ghostly pale from millions of years spent below ground, the...