Near the center of the Milky Way, a star is racing around Sagittarius A* at speeds reaching 25 000 km/s. Named S301, it is ...

Scientists are narrowing down the type of space rock that caused the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period, and ...

Scientists examining Scotty, the largest T. rex skeleton ever discovered, found an extraordinary network of mineralized blood ...

Researchers can now rewrite glass chemistry while it is still molten, unlocking properties that extreme heat once made ...

Researchers find that differences in academic preparation and interest in a major do not fully explain why some groups are ...

Scientists have shown that biology can read an eight-letter DNA alphabet, opening new possibilities for synthetic life and ...

Increasing SORLA, a protein with a protective role in the brain, helped mice withstand damage from tau tangles, the toxic ...

Credit: NASA Large Binocular Telescope data cut helium measurement uncertainty threefold. Helium, a light chemical element, carries clues to what the universe was like during its first five minutes.

The frontoparietal cortex, the brain’s information hub, helps coordinate responses when circumstances change. While driving, for example, the brain must draw on a remembered route and the skills ...

A new study suggests that RNA can become dangerous when cells accumulate more of it than they can clear. Credit: Stock. A virus may cripple a cell’s power supply simply by produ ...

Among children whose mothers had no history of depression, increases in depressive symptoms were followed by less attention to happy faces. Brandon Gibb, director of Binghamton’s Mood Disorders ...

Cancer cells can release antioxidants that interfere with the immune cells trying to kill them. Researchers have discovered ...