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 ...

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

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

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 ...