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The virus spreads from direct person-to-person contact. But here's what makes it especially lethal: it persists in corpses, and funeral practices often take place precisely when bodies are most infectious.

Many people have vivid dreams shortly before death. Research suggests the dreams are not a sign of confusion — but may help both the dying and their loved ones make sense of loss.

Instagram and Facebook have a problem with underage users — there's too many of them. Parent company, Meta, aims to root out under-13s with an age-profiling AI. This plays into a debate about a teenage social media ban.

This big asteroid was discovered shortly before it was expected to hurtle past Earth. Any time you see a headline about asteroids approaching the planet, you can relax. Big and small asteroids fly by all the time.

In 2018-2019, the Andes virus hantavirus spread person-to-person in Argentina. Eleven people died — but it was stopped. Analysis of that outbreak shows the current one can also be stopped.

The Andes hantavirus outbreak shows how easily disease labels are misunderstood — and why they describe patterns of spread, not how dangerous a virus is.

Three people have died on a cruise ship in the Atlantic, reportedly from hantavirus. The dangerous Andes strain has been confirmed in two cases. What are the symptoms, and how is it transmitted?

New 3D images reveal the clitoris’s complex nerve network, highlighting long‑standing gaps in medical understanding of the female body.

Hansjürgen Köhler has been a volunteer UFO hunter for more than 50 years. He sees his work as scientific investigation, but sometimes also as caring for others.

Social psychologists in the US found that a third of people surveyed feel the world will end in their lifetimes. That's not only depressing; it also affects people's sense of agency when faced by war or climate change.