Dark matter is a mysterious substance that glues galaxies together. This map from the James Webb Space Telescope could help ...

Scientists are using lasers, satellites and even sound to determine what is falling from the sky—but the best tool may still ...

Decades ago, doctors created a test to determine which breast cancer patients should receive hormone therapy. Now, ...

Reyhaneh Maktoufi loves a good story. She uses it to make sense of the world. Her own storytelling style leans into humor. “As most people who are artists will tell you, I often scribbled in a ...

Scientists in Belgium—that celebrated bastion of ancient beer culture—are harnessing genetic breakthroughs and machine ...

Preserved by dry, cool air and darkness, the cheetah mummies are offering scientists DNA insights into a lost population and ...

Moon dust is sharp, corrosive, and potentially fatal. NASA’s new electric force field shield is designed to blast it away.

A natural experiment in a national park in Patagonia shows how the return of a large predator can reshape an ecosystem.

Marketed as “liquid gold” for gut and immune health, colostrum plays a critical role in infancy—but research suggests adults ...

Aerial view of the Amazonian jungle on a flight from La Paz to Rurrenabaque, 2014. OpenAI has announced the winners of a its 'OpenAI to Z Challenge' that hopes to help archaeologists cut through the ...

We know next to nothing about 99.999 percent of the seafloor. How one researcher plans to democratize deep-sea exploration. Katy Croff Bell, who has been an ocean researcher for 25 years, is working ...

Studies show parents are more likely to have bigger families when kids are the same gender, creating patterns that look biological—but may be behavioral. New research shows that having all boys or all ...