A new study shows learning to fly in virtual reality with virtual wings can reshape the brain, making it treat wings more ...

On the International Space Station, a cube holding a diamond-based sensor revealed the potential for quantum magnetometers.

Planetary scientist Candice Hansen-Koharcheck championed the importance of space imagery. Her legacy lives on in every pixel ...

Early in her research, forensic anthropologist Alexandra Morton-Hayward came across a paper describing a 2,500-year-old brain preserved in a severed skull. The paper referenced another preserved brain ...

Nigerian virologist Margaret Oluwatoyin Japhet has designed a rapid test that could diagnose rotavirus at a child’s bedside.

Creating human eggs from adult cells just got one step closer to reality. A technique used in cloning combined with fertilization and a bit of chemical coaxing caused human skin cells to produce eggs ...

The study is often blamed for distrust of the U.S. health care system. It’s not that simple. “We were all hard-working men … and citizens of the United States.” Herman Shaw, 1997 Born in Alabama in ...

Finds at sites in Spain and France suggest that Neandertals used the teeth of ancient rhinos for heavy-duty fabrication.

Most scientific fields have been made over with a revolutionary theory at least once in recent centuries. Such makeovers, or paradigm shifts, reorder old knowledge into a new framework. Revolutionary ...

To serenade with their high-pitched songs, singing mice inflate a throat sac — a use for air sacs seemingly unknown in any ...

Public health officials are racing to find out how the sometimes deadly hantavirus got aboard a cruise ship and if there has ...

Several studies have served up tantalizing hints about the drugs’ potential cancer prevention benefits, but other results ...