The “Asian Water Tower” is losing roughly 24.2 billion tonnes of groundwater every year, with some of the worst declines ...

A discarded SpaceX Falcon 9 stage crashed into the Moon on Aug. 5, leaving behind a newly formed crater about 60 feet wide.

Spain’s total solar eclipse delivered an unexpected sight: a corona glowing gold instead of its usual pearly white. Because ...

Extreme experiments have revealed how diamond behaves at crushing pressures beyond those inside Neptune and Uranus, resolving a decades-old conflict between theory and observation. The results could ...

More than 1,000 genetic switches behave differently in male and female immune cells, helping explain why women are much more ...

Coffee drinkers may be getting more than an energy boost. A Finnish study found that people who drank more coffee tended to ...

The brain has a remarkably flexible system for handling uncertainty and changing situations. Researchers found that the ...

MIT physicists found that two electronic phases inside the same quantum material emerge through surprisingly different ...

Engineered probiotic bacteria were able to infiltrate pancreatic tumors, stimulate cancer-fighting immune cells, and slow ...

Scientists have found evidence that the effects of a mother’s age on her offspring may be driven by reversible changes in ...

Breast cancer is rising rapidly among Asian American women, with some of the most alarming increases occurring in younger ...

A tiny machine made from just an atom and particles of light may sound impossibly simple, but it raises a surprisingly ...