Nicotine exposure in fathers may quietly reshape their children’s metabolism, hinting at a hidden link to diabetes risk.

Chemists have developed a light-driven method for producing a rare and highly strained molecular structure known as “housane.” Designing a new drug often starts with a basic but difficult task: making ...

A team of physicists has uncovered a hidden topological structure within one of the most widely used sources of quantum entanglement.

Webb has captured the haunting “Exposed Cranium” nebula—an otherworldly cloud shaped by a dying star that looks remarkably like a brain inside a skull.

New research suggests our Sun was part of a huge migration of Sun-like stars that moved away from the Milky Way’s center billions of years ago.

New research suggests that explanations based only on climate may not fully account for the major decline of the lowland population in Central America and calls for a reassessment of those assumptions ...

Vitamin D didn’t blunt COVID’s initial impact—but it may hold a surprising clue in the fight against long COVID.

Scientists discovered that crops exposed to trace pharmaceuticals in recycled water mostly stash the compounds in their leaves—not the parts we usually eat.

Younger colorectal cancer patients have abnormally stiff colon tissue that promotes tumor growth, pointing to biomechanical forces as a key factor in early-onset disease.

Scientists have uncovered surprising complexity in a tiny sensory structure found in comb jellies, some of the oldest animals on Earth.

Pregnancy is known to reshape the brain, but new research reveals that these changes do not stop after the first child.

Researchers propose that the key to identifying consciousness in animals and AI lies in understanding how their information processing systems work.