Simulations suggest the faintest galaxies near the Milky Way share one iron level because a single giant first star exploded in each.

Children reported less fear after brief virtual reality sessions before surgery, offering early evidence for a possible ...

Organic specks in primitive meteorites carry an oxygen signature set before their asteroids formed, likely in the cold outer ...

Twenty Anglo-Saxon coins dug up beside the Vatican point to a busy English quarter in Rome where English money may have changed hands freely.

An octopus has no bones, so it can squeeze through a gap far narrower than its body. It often does that in the wild to escape ...

A study of nearly 200,000 adults links late-night eating to a much higher rate of liver disease, though direct causation ...

A brainstem theory of consciousness puts the raw feeling of being 'you' in the brain's ancient stalk, and its evidence starts ...

Poverty, hunger, and insecure land rights could limit efforts to plant new forests and remove carbon from the atmosphere, a ...

Why don’t green values always lead to greener purchases? A new study explores how enjoyment and practicality shape ...

A tiny junction on a topological insulator seemed to close and reopen its energy gap, a key prediction of topological quantum ...

Heatwave wildfire smoke days now reach about 916 million people a year, and the heaviest burden falls on countries rarely ...

Changes in phone game decisions predicted heavier drinking the following month in a yearlong study of people with alcohol use ...