A maggot’s age and species can give essential information to forensic entomologists investigating murders. (A single wriggling horse fly maggot, for instance, found on a dead body far from water, gave ...

Iranian residents have reported headaches, difficulty breathing, and oil-contaminated rain settling on buildings and cars after the bombing of oil depots ...

The Van Allen probe, which studied how the Earth is protected from harmful space radiation, could fall to Earth tonight. Here’s what to know ...

Infections from enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) bacteria are the most common cause of travelers’ diarrhea, and they commonly cause childhood diarrhea in low-income regions. In children below ...

Konstantina Kilteni is an assistant professor at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and principal investigator of the Touch & Tickle Lab based at Karolinska and the Donders Institute for Brain, ...

Sahas Mehra is a freelance science and health journalist who has previously written for Science, New Scientist and Live Science. You can connect with him on Bluesky @sahasmehra.bsky.social ...

The discovery adds to the Archimedes Palimpsest, an important medieval manuscript containing texts from the Greek ...

Speakers at the Stand Up for Science rally in Washington, D.C., criticized the politicization of science and cuts to research that serves the public ...

A new study shows that taking a daily multivitamin could boost longevity, but the results aren’t conclusive ...

The cancellation of a meeting of the committee that guides federal autism research funding follows an announcement that an ...

A large, bright meteor fell over Europe on Sunday, with some observers saying they could hear the rock’s explosive descent ...

A proposed $1.3-billion U.S. Army Corps of Engineers port expansion in North Carolina threatens to unearth decades of “forever chemicals.” The government’s initial plan: don’t test the mud ...