Category: Science

A well-known Maya stone carving known as Altar Q, located at the site of Copán in Honduras, may use hand signs to represent key dates

A man noticed pus oozing from his chest, and it ended up revealing a knife blade in his thoracic cavity.

Results from a large trial suggest baxdrostat could provide a new option for people whose blood pressure remains high despite standard treatment.

Why do some elements decay in minutes, while others last billions of years? Certain “magic numbers” of nuclear particles may make all the difference.

Discover interesting facts about how traits are passed down over generations through DNA.

A study of human placentas suggests that urban air pollution may push the organ’s resident immune cells into an inflammatory state.

Saving reproductive tissue from kids treated for cancer before adolescence could give them a chance at having biological children later in life.

A slew of new research attempts to zero in on what happens as our brains get older — and what can bring about those changes

The mystery of how related flightless birds ended up so far apart on different continents may have been solved.

The juvenile pachycephalosaurs, which predates the previous oldest dome-headed dinosaur by 15 million years, reveals more about how and when this unusual feature developed.

Traditional chemical sunscreens can damage coral reefs. Scientists say there’s a fix using one derived from tea plant pollen.

Westerlund 1 is the biggest and closest “super” star cluster to Earth. Data from Chandra and other telescopes are helping astronomers delve deeper into this

The Earth’s atmosphere is nothing but freely roaming molecules. Left alone, they would drift and collide, and eventually even out into a mixture that’s dynamic

There’s a simple story of the greenhouse effect: A blanket of carbon dioxide envelops the planet, letting sunlight in but trapping its heat. As a