Animals searching for water brought the forest to the city, perhaps sparking Brazil’s first yellow fever outbreak in decades.

Necrotizing enterocolitis strikes premature babies with almost no warning. A new approach aims to detect it early with a ...

Gluons do more than hold protons together. They may also help define the proton’s identity through a quantum property called ...

Genetic screening that identifies cancer-linked mutations in newborns could give doctors a head start on treatment, but it ...

A 26-kilogram plastic garment, flown on a model human torso on the uncrewed Artemis I mission, may one day protect astronauts ...

Estrogen-only menopause therapy in older women was linked to less Alzheimer’s brain pathology at autopsy but may not prevent ...

Operating within a global underwater robotics market valued at over $5 billion, the market is rich with manufacturers ...

What makes a greener wipe? Researchers have more to say about bamboo's ecological risks, given limited carbon footprint data.

Growth rings on a fossil bone suggest at least one mammal ancestor gave birth to live young rather than laying eggs 236 million years ago.

The sun frequently flings plasma into space, but sightings of such eruptions on other stars are rare. Magnetic fields could explain why.

The blue ribbon for largest known galaxy goes to a behemoth that probably grew by cannibalizing its smaller neighbors. Known as IC 1101, the galaxy’s diameter is estimated to be a whopping 520 ...

In The Sheep Detectives, Mopple has a superpower: The anthropomorphic sheep can’t forget anything. He joins a long line of fictional characters with some version of photographic memory — a strikingly ...