For decades, scientists have been counting annual growth rings—similar to tree rings—inside fossilized leg bones of ...

A substance poisonous to humans — hydrogen cyanide — may have helped create the seeds of life on Earth. At cold temperatures, ...

Almost half of our attention during face-to-face conversation focuses on lip motion. Yet, robots still struggle to move their ...

A recent study of more than 2,000 early-career adults found that young people whose parents were still very closely involved ...

Huntington’s disease (HD) has long been impossible to cure, but new research is finally giving fresh hope. HD is a ...

Spontaneous remission happens more often than you might think. But that's still super rare. So understanding how cancer goes ...

To progress to the next level in understanding reality, we need to combine quantum mechanics and Einstein’s general ...

A new study led by researchers at ETH Zurich and the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI in collaboration with African partners shows ...

Dr. Rowan Martindale, a paleoecologist and geobiologist at the University of Texas at Austin, was walking through the Dadès ...

The mucosal surfaces that line the body are embedded with defensive molecules that help keep microbes from causing ...

While we often think of brains as some kind of triumph over brawn, it turns out that those two things might not be mutually ...

U.S. adolescents spend more than one hour per day on smartphones during school hours, with social media accounting for the largest share of use, according to research published today in JAMA. The find ...