A long-overlooked organ may hold surprising clues to healthy aging and cancer survival. Researchers at Mass General Brigham ...

Kitchen sponges release microplastics as they wear down during everyday use, with some sponge types shedding far more than ...

A promising new study suggests rheumatoid arthritis may not be as inevitable as once thought for people at high risk.

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope could revolutionize the search for alien worlds by discovering around 100,000 exoplanets—far ...

A stunning spiral galaxy called Messier 88 is racing through the crowded Virgo Cluster on a journey that will dramatically ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising navigation system in pigeons: iron-filled immune cells in the liver that may act like ...

NASA’s futuristic X-59 jet is about to face its biggest challenge yet: breaking the sound barrier for the first time. After a successful series of test flights that pushed the aircraft to ...

Losing weight may involve rewiring the gut and the brain at the same time. In a study of obese adults, an intermittent ...

Melanoma may not become steadily more dangerous with age as scientists once assumed. In a surprising discovery, researchers ...

Scientists have developed a solar desalination system that turns seawater into drinking water without creating environmentally damaging brine. Special laser-textured metal panels use sunlight to ...

The Arctic Ocean may have crossed a dangerous tipping point. Scientists say the rapid disappearance of sea ice is triggering ...

A new study suggests Antarctica’s ice sheet hit a climate tipping point about one million years ago, making it far more ...