Exploring Earth’s deep interior is a far bigger challenge than exploring the solar system. While we have travelled 25 billion km into space, the deepest we have ever gone below our feet is just ...

In 2023, a subatomic particle called a neutrino crashed into Earth with such a high amount of energy that it should have been impossible. In fact, there are no known sources anywhere in the universe c ...

Doctors have found that metformin, an everyday medicine for diabetes, is associated with less progression of age-related ...

Transgender women might have more muscle mass than cisgender women 1 to 3 years after hormone therapy, but their physical ...

The social scientist Arthur Brooks dedicates his time to studying happiness. And upon reading Jung’s interview he was struck ...

An international team has described Foskeia pelendonum, a tiny Early Cretaceous ornithopod from Vegagete (Burgos, Spain), measuring barely half a meter long. Led by Paul-Emile Dieudonné (Nation ...

Prior to the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970, Americans lived in communities awash with lead from industrial sources, paint, water supply pipes and, most significantly, ta ...

Physical aggression by young people toward their parents occurs quite frequently – yet the subject remains taboo. Victims ...

Improvements in public health have allowed humankind to survive to older ages than ever before, but, for many people, these ...

Not all minerals are beauty queens. But often, the ones that aren't as interesting visually have a lot more to them than ...

Dark matter remains one of the greatest mysteries in physics. But could neutrinos spell the end of an era for dark matter ...

A group of ocean bacteria long considered perfectly adapted to life in nutrient-poor waters may be more vulnerable to environmental change than scientists realized. The bacteria, known as SAR11, domin ...