Thinking positive increased a specific brain region's activity and might have heightened immune response after a shot.

Researchers are using X-rays to discover invisible markings left on ancient parchment containing information from the Greek ...

New research challenges the view that human life span depends mostly on lifestyle. Genes may account for half the factors ...

Polar bears can struggle to adapt to climate change. Bears on Svalbard may be surviving on land prey and seals — but scientists warn it may not last.

Pulsating remnants of stars hint at a clump of invisible matter thought to be about 10 million times the sun’s mass.

A new artificial lung system might keep people without lungs alive for weeks. Like real lungs, tubes and pumps oxygenate ...

New U.S. dietary guidelines promote eating full-fat foods and meats. But experts say nuts and seed oils are better sources of ...

Humpback whales are teaching each other a feeding technique called bubble netting, and it's helping a Canadian population recover from whaling.

The tool helps scientists understand how single-letter mutations and distant DNA regions influence gene activity, shaping ...

Scientists have long focused on quantifying fear and other negative emotions in animals. Now they’re trying to measure ...

An ancient ancestor of spiders and relatives doubled its genome about 400 million years ago, setting the stage for the ...

These 430,000-year-old wooden tools from Greece are a rare find and provide a glimpse at the technical know-how of our early ...