Researchers tasked an algorithm with predicting cancer patients’ risk of dying. For some people, it was shockingly accurate ...

Launched atop an H3 rocket from Tanegashima Space Center just after 3:40 P.M. EDT on Monday, the Martian Moons Exploration ...

Rutaecarpine is touted as a fix to rapidly flush caffeine out of the body, but it may be toxic when mixed with Tylenol ...

“ ’Tis the gift to be simple,” the Shakers sing. Catholic nuns and Buddhist monks take vows of poverty. Why? A new study published online in May in Psychological Science offers a hint. Money—even the ...

How close is too close for encounters between sensitive spacecraft orbiting Earth? With a mysterious approach to another ...

For the first time ever, a spacecraft will travel all the way to the Mars system and return. But first, it has to get through the launch ...

For decades, scientists thought that in order to read other people’s emotions, the brain processed sensory information from faces and voices in separate areas. But new research shows otherwise—seeing ...

The beginning of fall and back-to-school time means cold virus season has arrived. Usually, colds hit as lesser-evil ...

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Late last month, Anthropic claimed it had discovered a curious stretch of DNA in a virus called a bacteriophage that repeats ...

In past research, microplastics have been shown to cause inflammation, oxidative stress and decreased mitochondrial activity.

OpenAI’s bumper crop of 722 math papers wowed and worried the research community—and cryptographers are split over whether ...