"Stranger Things" comes to an end on New Year's Eve.
CDC data shows 81,000 hospitalizations and 3,100 deaths this season so far.
The test is designed to prepare satellites for one of the most complex tasks in space: safely approaching another object.
People from many different cultures across the globe and across millennia largely agree about which body parts are most valuable – and how much compensation they warrant when injured.
The year's first supermoon and meteor shower will sync up in January skies, but the light from one may dim the other. In dark skies during the peak, skygazers typically see around 25 meteors per hour, but this time they'll likely glimpse less than 10 per hour due to light from Saturday's supermoon. “The biggest enemy of enjoying a meteor shower is the full moon,” said Mike Shanahan, planetarium director at Liberty Science Center in New Jersey.
Dec 29 () - Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly are lowering prices of their top-selling obesity drugs Wegovy and Mounjaro in China, according to the Danish drugmaker and Chinese drug suppliers. Novo did not give details on the new prices, but media outlet Yicai reported earlier that list prices for the two highest dosages of Wegovy were cut by 48% to 987 yuan ($141) and 1,284 yuan per month respectively in some Chinese provinces.
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There were breakthroughs in Alzheimer's disease and sleep apnea.
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The Arctic endured a year of record heat and shrunken sea ice as the world’s northern latitudes continue a rapid shift to becoming rainier and less ice-bound due to the climate crisis, scientists have reported.
"Malcolm in the Middle: Life's Still Unfair" reunites Frankie Muniz's character with his chaotic family against his will.
Italy is packed full of beautiful destinations that are popular with tourists, but this heavily trafficked spot in the country may be best avoided in 2026.
We saw quite a few milestones notched in the final frontier this year. But there were a number of failures as well, some of them quite dramatic.
Oszkár Nagyapáti climbed to the bottom of a sandy pit on his land on the Great Hungarian Plain and dug into the soil with his hand, looking for a sign of groundwater that in recent years has been in accelerating retreat. Nagyapáti has watched with distress as the region in southern Hungary, once an important site for agriculture, has become increasingly parched and dry. In a 2017 paper in European Countryside, a scientific journal, researchers cited “the combined effect of climatic changes, im