Piano music helped young adults recover from stress faster than water sounds did, and brain scans traced a stronger signal from ear to body.

Telegraph needles failed on a Devon railway during an 1848 magnetic storm, and the space weather record kept the wrong year.

Brain recordings reveal a distinctive neural signature during the nearly thought-free state of pure awareness in Transcendental Meditation.

A 175-year-old mistake about a major solar storm has been uncovered, changing the timeline of space weather’s earliest ...

Words children overhear fill most of the day at home, yet toddlers only start recognizing them close to their second birthday ...

Four fossils from China put the starfish ancestor on the seabed with feathery feeding arms instead of a burrow and gill slits ...

Some birds appear to seek out geothermal steam, where sulfur-rich gases could help them manage parasites and pathogens.

Indole, a molecule gut bacteria make from food, slowed a leading cause of food poisoning in mice, and one probiotic did the same.

Iron meteorites show the first bodies of the early solar system were 83% to 92% dry rock, with water arriving millions of ...

Social anxiety amplifies brain networks that track being watched – a boost for easy learning that may backfire when tasks get ...

A five-year dairy study reveals how producing more milk can shrink its carbon footprint – and why the way emissions are ...

A new federal directive changes how the Endangered Species Act applies when protected wildlife is unintentionally killed.