Genetic changes may set off a chain reaction that causes the spine’s natural shock absorbers to harden and deteriorate.

Millions of sperm do not always compete alone—some species send them into action as coordinated teams. A sweeping ...

Ancient seafloor sediments have revealed a surprising twist in how the Atlantic’s massive circulation system works. During a ...

A group of brain cells called orexin neurons appears to help us keep working when reaching a reward becomes increasingly ...

An exceptionally preserved snake fossil from Brazil reveals that early snakes were far more diverse than scientists once ...

A simple change in posture may subtly affect how people feel and make decisions. Participants who sat upright reported greater feelings of pride and took more successful risks in a virtual balloon ...

Stanford researchers discovered immune cells in flatworms that explode within minutes, killing nearby bacteria and foreign cells before vanishing completely. Their unusually fast and localized attack ...

Photons traveling through a cloud of atoms can emerge so early that they appear to have spent a negative amount of time ...

Taiwan’s steep, remote mountains have sheltered extraordinary forests containing hundreds of giant Taiwania firs. After years ...

Thawing Arctic permafrost is releasing ancient carbon into the ocean, raising fears that microbes could turn it into ...

Historic wildfires scorched huge areas of Spain and France, with one Spanish blaze burning an area about the size of New York ...

Vanderbilt researchers created the first selective compound designed to inhibit TAOK-1, a poorly understood protein connected ...