The pitch is compelling: a single sample of blood could scan the body for dozens of different cancers at once, catching disease at a stage when it is easier to treat and more likely to be curable. For ...

The European Space Agency said it is investigating a fireball that streaked across the skies of Europe on the weekend before reportedly punching a football-sized hole in the roof of a German home.

The discovery that bumblebee queens could shake it off and emerge unscathed after more than a week submerged in water stunned scientists back in 2024.

Malaria killed about 610,000 people globally in 2024, with most deaths occurring in Africa, where young children remain the most vulnerable.

The Milky Way isn't just drifting through a giant void in space untethered, but is embedded in a sheet of dark matter like a blueberry in a pancake, new research suggests.

COVID vaccines saved millions of lives, but months into the rollout, a small number of people began developing dangerous blood clots in unusual parts of the body.

GLP-1 drugs, such as Ozempic and Wegovy, may slightly increase the risk of osteoporosis, gout, and the rare metabolic bone disease osteomalacia, a recent study suggests.

Leonardo da Vinci, the famous Italian polymath who painted the Mona Lisa, had a sophisticated geometric understanding far ahead of his time.

In an eerie new study, scientists have analyzed the brain activity of mice and used it to reconstruct videos of what the mice had seen.

For the first time, meteorologists have glimpsed the tiny bursts of ultraviolet light emitted by trees during thunderstorms.

Lots of chronic health problems that strike in middle age can increase the risk of later-in-life Alzheimer's or other forms of dementia. For example, high blood pressure damages blood vessels, which ...

Health risks posed by synthetic chemicals in our environment could potentially linger in our germline for generations.