Mt. Vesuvius towering above the ruins of Pompeii. The volcano’s eruption in 79 C.E. inundated the town. Historical accounts ...

Jeanerpeton mazonensis, an early ancestor of modern amphibians, looked like a salamander with the squat, chubby build of a ...

“Our findings demonstrate that a simple oral pill can effectively target and repair the inner blood-retina barrier. This ...

The finding in human cerebrospinal fluid also raises the possibility of using meprin-β as an indicator of Alzheimer’s. This ...

A drug designed to mimic some of the metabolic effects of cold increased calorie burning in a small human study, but not in ...

For the new analysis, researchers compared that list with data from more than a dozen U.S. government databases. They found ...

A newly identified Amazonian killifish is known from just three disturbed forest pools, prompting researchers to call for ...

A Tennessee bottlebrush crayfish in a West Virginia university collection has taken the top spot in a new ranking of North ...

Two new studies suggest that Saturn’s moon Enceladus may be an even more compelling target in the search for extraterrestrial ...

Releasing the hormone cortisol is the human body’s natural way of responding to stress. Because cortisol can cross the ...

Coffee can worsen reflux symptoms for some people. Reflux, when your stomach acid flows back up into your food pipe, isn’t ...

Researchers combined gravity data from NASA’s GRAIL mission with magnetic measurements from Lunar Prospector and Kaguya. In ...