Autistic children doing occupational therapy on horseback showed bigger drops in the stress hormone cortisol than in a clinic.

Children who grow up with supportive relationships and positive experiences may have a lower risk of depression and other mental health problems as young adults.

Lonely brown dwarfs have water and methane in their skies, but NASA’s SPHEREx data show the best models can’t yet explain ...

A bizarre insect trapped in 99-million-year-old amber had flexible mouthparts nearly twice its body length, revealing an ...

Blood sugar patterns that standard tests miss may be linked to higher blood pressure, unhealthy cholesterol levels, and ...

A single DNA letter beside the gene MECP2 lowered its output by 30% in human neurons, and it may help explain autism in boys.

Tree rings from 199 bristlecone pines show cool droughts drained the Colorado River about as badly as warm ones over 2,000 ...

Divers off Vis, Croatia, uncovered a Hellenistic shipwreck with 6 meters of keel and Greek fine pottery scratched with ...

Webb traced the farthest fast radio burst yet to a tiny, young galaxy, a clue that it didn’t come from colliding neutron ...

Old Congo Basin weather sheets, read by software, show the region's hottest days became nearly twice as common between the ...

Measuring 123 species, biologists found two new contenders for loudest bird, and learned that bigger birds with wider mouths are louder.

Small earthquakes near North Korea's nuclear test site began weeks after the last blast in 2017 and grew more frequent for ...