Why do some elements decay in minutes, while others last billions of years? Certain "magic numbers" of nuclear particles may ...

The juvenile pachycephalosaurs, which predates the previous oldest dome-headed dinosaur by 15 million years, reveals more ...

A new NASA study suggests that solar activity will remain high or rise further in the coming decades, contradicting previous ...

The mystery of how related flightless birds ended up so far apart on different continents may have been solved.

Traditional chemical sunscreens can damage coral reefs. Scientists say there's a fix using one derived from tea plant pollen.

A study of human placentas suggests that urban air pollution may push the organ's resident immune cells into an inflammatory state.