Category: Science

A newly discovered object may be a key to unlocking the true nature of a mysterious class of sources that astronomers have found in the

Nigerian virologist Margaret Oluwatoyin Japhet has designed a rapid test that could diagnose rotavirus at a child’s bedside.

Finds at sites in Spain and France suggest that Neandertals used the teeth of ancient rhinos for heavy-duty fabrication.

Early in life, neural networks in the brain’s memory center are highly connected, and they are only later refined into precise systems, a mouse study

Quantum batteries can be charged remotely and could allow for far better energy density than conventional batteries used in devices today.

A new study links the sun’s 11-year cycle to accelerated orbital loss, with debris falling faster once sunspot numbers near their cycle peak.

A woman’s sudden hyperpigmentation was a side effect of a medicine she was taking.

Researchers turned hard-to-recycle plastic into hydrogen using battery acid. This circular upcycling system tackles multiple problematic waste streams at once, the scientists claim.

As a U.N. report warns that extreme temperature swings are disrupting crops and endangering agricultural workers, we spoke with environmental economist Shouro Dasgupta about farming

Both unusually low and high resting heart rates may be linked to an increased stroke risk, though more research is needed to confirm a causal

Observations suggest there’s a small, icy object with an atmosphere beyond Pluto, challenging assumptions about which bodies can sustain atmospheres.

To serenade with their high-pitched songs, singing mice inflate a throat sac — a use for air sacs seemingly unknown in any other animal.

Public health officials are racing to find out how the sometimes deadly hantavirus got aboard a cruise ship and if there has been human-to-human spread.

America’s first human spaceflight begins as the Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3) space vehicle, with astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. aboard, launches from Cape Canaveral, Florida on