Instead of observing the light coming to us, we study the debris of exploding stars right here on Earth. As cosmic furnaces, ...

Credit: NASA / Theophilus Britt Griswold Scientists have found a vast hidden heat imbalance inside Mars, with the southern ...

The plastic is polyethylene, one of the most widely used plastics in the world. In laboratory experiments, the new process ...

The Hall effect has been an important tool in physics for more than a century. In 1879, Edwin Hall discovered that when a magnetic field is applied perpendicular to a material carrying an electric ...

The findings come from the CorCal Outcomes trial, which compared two ways of deciding who should start statins before experiencing a first major cardiovascular event. Statins are cholesterol-lowering ...

Researchers at the University of Hong Kong analyzed electronic medical records from more than 120,000 people age 60 and older. NBP users had a 16% lower risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease and ...

For several patients, one CAR T-cell infusion led to remission without continued rheumatoid arthritis medication. If that effect can be confirmed, the therapy could represent a fundamental shift for ...

For nearly a century, scientists have been trying to identify dark matter, the mysterious material believed to account for ...

One asteroid impact may have carved Deimos, buried its surface in debris, and reshaped the entire Martian moon. An ...

The Asian longhorned tick, Haemaphysalis longicornis, had the highest prevalence, with 1.8% testing positive. Laboratory experiments also showed that this tick species could transmit ALTNV to mice, ...

El Niño can alter the large-scale atmospheric patterns that normally help keep northern Chile exceptionally dry. During El ...

Mice bred to be unusually athletic might be expected to pay a biological price, perhaps by living shorter lives or producing ...