Climate change is helping Atlantic hurricanes pack more of a punch, making them rainier, intensifying them faster and helping the storms linger longer even after landfall. But a new statistical ...

Nearly 4,000 common variations in DNA are known to affect height, with each one nudging stature up or down a millimeter or so. But a gene variant found in almost 5 percent of Peruvians reduces height ...

The weird glowing blob of gas known as Hanny’s Voorwerp was a 10-year-old mystery. Now, Lia Sartori of ETH Zurich and colleagues have come to a two-pronged solution. Hanny van Arkel, then a teacher in ...

Since Jaws was released 50 years ago, great white sharks have, arguably, become the most recognized fish in the ocean. But despite their fame, they’re not the biggest shark species. The largest shark ...

A protein that is a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease may also ID a brain condition associated with head trauma in contact ...

A canopy call, a partial photo and DNA revealed a new primate species — one that may already be at risk of extinction.

Researchers tracked a prescribed grassland fire using infrasound, sound waves pitched too low for people to hear.

A diet rich in the amino acid arginine might help the immune system fend off cancer and infection.

Ancient mammals may have had an easier time moving across the Isthmus of Panama from north to south thanks to Mexico’s ...

The inferno that sent toxic smoke billowing toward the United States won't be the last. Officials are now battling both the ...

A chat with aged avatars of future selves can guide people paralyzed by tough decisions. The question is what information to ...

But a new documentary series tells a different story: one about survivors. Pompeii: Out of Time, hosted by actor Tom ...