Category: Science

Vaccination remains the priority, but some researchers are looking for drugs to fight the virus in people who don’t get the shot.

The FDA will allow bemotrizinol in sunscreen. The chemical is long-lasting and defends against solar radiation that ages skin.

Researchers used machine learning to help predict chemical signatures for over 1 billion possible fentanyls, including variants never seen before.

Easily identified by the spectacular band of dark dust that partially obscures its bright core, Messier 64, or the Black Eye Galaxy, is characterized by

At this moment, a spacecraft is headed from Earth to Europa, an ice-veiled moon of Jupiter thought to contain an ocean similar in some ways

Around 58 of Indonesia’s Tapanuli orangutans were crushed or buried alive by landslides brought on by the climate-change-fueled Cyclone Senyar.

A new study shows that the Small Magellanic Cloud is being pulled apart by its larger sibling on the Milky Way’s periphery, upending our understanding

A mathematical model shows that attempting to sever a fundamental particle of light could conjure new ones out of thin air.

Chewing gum made from mastic resin is a Greek staple that has some benefits for the mouth and gut. But it won’t change your face

People with a rare condition experience “pauses” in their heart beat that cause them to faint. A new procedure could change their lives, research suggests.

Our solar system may have hosted up to six giant planets in its first hundred million years, a new study suggests. The findings paint a

Adult finches make “heat calls” as the temperature rises. Exposure to the song prepares their unhatched young’s brains for the heat.

Using smartphone-based tools, researchers find that older adults’ recollections of past events may remain more intact than previously thought.

Prehistoric squirrel droppings were analyzed and found to contain genetic material of numerous ice-age beasts, plants, microbes and fungi.