Psychologist Paul Bloom has spent years tracing a strange corner of human behavior he calls perversity: actions that violate ...

During a hospital resuscitation, a nurse removed an unconscious man’s dentures and placed them in a drawer of a crash cart. Days later, after the patient regained consciousness, he was told his ...

According to our best understanding, the universe is expanding – and is doing so at an accelerating rate. This is believed to ...

Stars and galaxies make up much of the universe’s ordinary, observable matter. But for decades, scientists have wrestled with ...

Triassic mass extinction, 201 million years ago, is linked to volcanism that resulted from the break-up of Pangea and which ...

The Milky Way may have undergone a dramatic change in orientation during its history, according to new research that helps explain a long-standing mystery about our galaxy. Using supercomputer simulat ...

Worried about the spread of the diarrhea-causing illness cyclosporiasis? A healthier gut might better prepare your body to ...

Scientists have developed a new way to predict the strength of the Sun's next activity cycle up to seven years before it ...

Science has a history of telling a flattering story about itself. It says the truth wins because the evidence wins, that you ...

Although the relationship between caffeine and cardiovascular health is complex, the latest research indicates consuming up ...

Researchers at EMBL Hamburg and collaborators at the Leibniz Research Institute for Molecular Pharmacology (FMP) have mapped ...