A daily avocado may help lower heart disease risk in adults with obesity by reducing the number of LDL particles circulating ...

A surprisingly simple change could make sodium-ion batteries far more powerful while opening the door to turning seawater ...

Global warming appears to have shifted into a faster gear. After removing the effects of El Niño, volcanic eruptions, and solar cycles, researchers found that the planet has warmed at roughly 0.35°C ...

A sweeping review of more than 350 studies suggests that the protein boom may be overselling what many people actually need.

NASA’s Curiosity rover has entered a Martian valley covered by an astonishing “sea” of tiny polygon-shaped fractures. The honeycomb patterns, each only a few inches wide, stretch across the landscape ...

Scientists studying magma from the 2021 Tajogaite eruption on La Palma have discovered that extreme heat can dramatically ...

Scientists discovered unusually high water-vapor supersaturation inside deep tropical clouds, creating conditions in which ...

Scientists have identified an immune response that may explain why statins cause muscle pain, weakness, and exercise intolerance in some people. The finding could eventually lead to treatments that ...

Ant parenting may have evolved from the same brain systems that once controlled hunger. Researchers found that two chemical ...

Modern humans carry DNA from two mysterious extinct lineages in addition to Neanderthals and Denisovans. Their hidden genetic ...

Blood cancers that eventually worsen may carry detectable genetic warning signs years before patients develop serious ...

More than 150 years after Darwin’s finches helped reshape biology, Galápagos plants are exposing another evolutionary ...