Category: Science

Polycystic ovary syndrome, or PCOS, has just been given a new name that experts say better reflects the nature of the condition.

The latest news and updates on the hantavirus cluster associated with the MV Hondius.

Rather than catching a yawn on sight, muscles squeezing the uterus could be the trigger for a fetus to catch a yawn from its mother.

In a first, researchers quantify how pollinator declines contribute to food insecurity.

NASA astronaut Jessica Meir poses with an Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuit during an official portrait session at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Mathematicians spend most of their time thinking about what’s knowable. But the unknowable can be just as compelling. Perhaps the most famous example comes from

At some 60 billion times the mass of the sun, this dark void could be home to a pair of black holes that are due

Some rodents in South America carry arenaviruses and hantaviruses. Climate change may bring both to regions where neither is currently a threat.

A new “geometry‑based” quantum swap gate makes neutral‑atom computers far less sensitive to laser noise — bringing large‑scale, stable quantum processors a step closer to

A tsunami that rocked an Alaskan fjord in 2025 was the second largest ever recorded and formed a standing wave that sloshed for a day.

The latest news and updates on the hantavirus cluster associated with the MV Hondius.

An ancient Egyptian board game piece was repurposed centuries later in Sudan into a dazzling gold-and-amethyst pendant.

Seen during the Artemis II mission, the Moon and Earth align in the same frame, each partially illuminated by the Sun.

Huge snakes, tiny snakes, poisonous snakes and constrictor snakes, snakes that slither, burrow or swim: New fossils and modern technology are tracing serpent origins