NASA’s Swift Observatory observed a supermassive black hole ripping apart a star more than 30,000 light-years from the center ...

Early humans in England crafted a rare piece of elephant bone into a reusable hammer for sharpening stone tools nearly ...

Dreams are not random mental noise. A large study of more than 3,700 dream and waking reports found that what we experience ...

NASA astronaut Chris Williams and two Roscosmos cosmonauts are back on Earth after spending 241 days aboard the International ...

A single 30-minute sauna session may briefly put the immune system on higher alert. Finnish researchers found that sauna heat ...

Young Jupiter’s powerful magnetic field may have created a safe zone where several large moons could survive. Saturn lacked ...

Lake fly larvae plunge more than 200 meters into Lake Malawi each day to hide from predators, using tiny air sacs to control their depth. A rubber-like material called resilin lets them expand or ...

Unsweetened sparkling water may offer a tooth-friendlier alternative to sugary soda, according to a small preliminary study ...

Scientists have uncovered the first direct evidence that inherited genetics can strongly influence cancer risk and help determine how tumors develop over time. The results show that the genes a person ...

Eating within a shorter daily window may help protect certain thinking skills as people age. In a small six-month trial, older women who limited eating to about 8 to 9 hours a day performed better on ...

Researchers are applying evolutionary theory to cancer by changing treatments before tumors have time to develop resistance. Mathematical models suggest that rapid, carefully timed switches between ...

Giant sequoias are built to withstand ordinary fires, but recent extreme wildfires killed thousands of trees that had ...