Over the past ninety years, Americans have told pollsters they're increasingly willing to vote for a female candidate for ...

If you’ve been pregnant in the past few months, you may have faced a dilemma. You wake up with a fever, a pounding headache or back pain – and then pause. Is it safe to ...

Wormholes are often imagined as tunnels through space or time — shortcuts across the universe. But this image rests on a ...

Obesity causes hypertension. Hypertension causes cardiovascular disease. And cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of ...

The new Dietary Guidelines have been announced. They recommend that Americans of all ages eat animal protein, dairy, ...

One of the most vivid portraits of “reborn” black hole activity – likened to the eruption of a “cosmic volcano” spreading ...

Modern physics has a problem. Its two main pillars are quantum theory and Einstein’s theory of general relativity, yet these ...

Huntington’s disease (HD) has long been impossible to cure, but new research is finally giving fresh hope. HD is a ...

Dark matter is a mysterious substance which makes up roughly 85% of the matter in the universe. But physicists have yet to ...

In Jervis Bay, off the coast of southwest Australia, octopuses have built two separate cities, which scientists nicknamed ...

Inside the body, a 24-hour rhythm, known as the circadian rhythm, quietly coordinates when we sleep, wake, eat and recover.

For decades, scientists have been counting annual growth rings—similar to tree rings—inside fossilized leg bones of ...