An asteroid strike 66 million years ago not only devastated the dinosaurs but almost reset life in the oceans back to a primitive soup of...

Stomach ulcers and other gastric wounds afflict one in eight people worldwide, but common conventional therapies have drawbacks. Now...

Pursued by poets and artists alike, beauty is ever elusive. We seek it in nature, art, and philosophy but also in our phones and...

The dawn of the Biden administration and its focus on climate change is attracting more industries to a solution that was, until...

When a clot blocks off circulation to the brain during an ischemic stroke, the loss of oxygen and nutrients can cause tissue to become...

Bacteria in the genus Geobacter look like miniature kidney beans sprouting long, wirelike tails—and it turns out these “nanowires” really...

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered its first Earth-sized planet in a star’s "habitable zone": the range...

In the late 1920s, a pathogen began killing seagrasses in Virginia's seaside bays. A 1933 hurricane finished them off. For more than a...

Dinosaur and fossil aficionados are intimately familiar with the meteorite strike that drove Tyrannosaurus rex and all nonavian dinosaurs...

Hallucinogenic mushrooms’ key ingredient, psilocybin, can swiftly and dramatically ease depression in the right therapeutic setting, a...

Very recently, we discovered a vast new microbial self: the human microbiome. Our native microbiota interface with our biology and...

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) have revealed an extremely distant and therefore very young galaxy that looks...

The search for life beyond Earth has largely revolved around Mars, our rocky red neighbor. Now, in a surprising twist, scientists at the...

Overview: The beginning of chemistry in the Cosmos: the first molecule in the universe Astrochemists study the molecules found in space,...

Quantum mechanics, which rules the world of the teensy-tiny, may help explain why genetic mutations spontaneously crop up in DNA as it...

On December 22nd, some corals managed to survive a globally unprecedented heatwave. The scientists of this study report that the coral's...

For years scientists have sought to create the ultimate cancer-screening test—one that can reliably detect a malignancy early, before...

Red blood cells are not just vehicles that transport oxygen in our bodies: they also clear harmful substances from the bloodstream....

First-of-their-kind images of the magnetic field around a black hole may explain how the black hole shoots out a jet of energy and matter...

Superstorm Sandy, in 2012, brought flood levels to the New York region that had not been seen in generations. Causing an estimated $74.1...