A 29-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of sore throat and peritonsillar swelling and bleeding. Symptoms did not abate with antimicrobial therapy. A diagnosis was made. This case ...

Lt. Gen. Sean Gainey, commander of the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, speaks at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii. Credit: U.S. Army photo by Sgt. ZaBarr Jones WASHINGTON ...

A space career field for enlisted soldiers is coming to the Army as the U.S. builds up its space-based capabilities. The Army is planning for about 900 40D space operations specialists who would ...

DENVER—The US Space Force lacks the full range of space weapons China and Russia are adding to their arsenals, and military leaders say it's time to close the gap. Gen. Chance Saltzman ...

A peritonsillar abscess forms in the tissues of the throat next to one of the tonsils. An abscess is a collection of pus that forms near an area of infected skin or other soft tissue. The abscess ...

Two NASA astronauts who flew up to the International Space Station in a Boeing Starliner capsule for a round trip that was supposed to last just over a week will be stuck in space for closer to a ...

Incision of the peritonsillar abscess yielded a small amount of foul ... Note the periostitis, bone destruction and narrowing of the joint space. Case 4. H.L., a Negro man, had had symptomatic ...

WASHINGTON — The Space Systems Command (SSC) announced it has awarded contracts to four companies to develop prototypes for laser communication terminals, kicking off the first phase of a $100 ...

A tiny surgical robot in residence at the International Space Station completed its first ... cofounder and chief technology officer at Virtual Incision, the startup that created spaceMIRA.

Humanity's quest to explore—and, perhaps eventually, colonize—outer space has prompted a great many ideas about how precisely to go about it. While conventional wisdom suggests that space ...