Ultra-processed foods make up a huge share of the American diet, and new research suggests they may carry another serious ...

Ancient teeth and human DNA are revealing a surprising history of insect eating. Modern humans in northern Eurasia appear to ...

Today’s mysterious gravitational-wave background may preserve clues about how the Universe’s first supermassive black holes ...

The belief that huge doses of vitamin C can ward off colds was popularized more than 50 years ago by Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling. Since then, larger studies have found that vitamin C does not ...

Ancient fossils suggest insects conquered land through a long amphibious phase rather than making an abrupt jump from water to dry ground. A newly identified 324-million-year-old species still carried ...

Scientists have found a surprising way to potentially switch on an unusual form of magnetism in ruthenium dioxide, a material ...

Researchers discovered a brain-based “brake” that can shut down chronic nerve pain in mice by calming an overactive pain ...

Scientists created smart nanoparticles that can both illuminate hidden glioblastoma cells during surgery and destroy ...

Moderate calorie restriction lowered an immune protein called C3 that appears to help drive chronic inflammation as the body ...

DNA from a nearly 190-year-old museum specimen has helped scientists confirm a distinct Himalayan pangolin species hiding in ...

Britain’s postwar sugar rationing created a rare natural experiment that let researchers examine how early sugar exposure ...

A Manhattan-sized ice island has broken away from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier after years of growing fractures weakened its ...