A new study shows learning to fly in virtual reality with virtual wings can reshape the brain, making it treat wings more ...

Planetary scientist Candice Hansen-Koharcheck championed the importance of space imagery. Her legacy lives on in every pixel ...

Racism that fueled the syphilis study still permeates the U.S. health care system, causing disparities in access to medical ...

Nigerian virologist Margaret Oluwatoyin Japhet has designed a rapid test that could diagnose rotavirus at a child’s bedside.

A new study links the sun's 11-year cycle to accelerated orbital loss, with debris falling faster once sunspot numbers near ...

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Early in her research, forensic anthropologist Alexandra Morton-Hayward came across a paper describing a 2,500-year-old brain preserved in a severed skull. The paper referenced another preserved brain ...

Public health officials are racing to find out how the sometimes deadly hantavirus got aboard a cruise ship and if there has ...

Creating human eggs from adult cells just got one step closer to reality. A technique used in cloning combined with fertilization and a bit of chemical coaxing caused human skin cells to produce eggs ...

Most scientific fields have been made over with a revolutionary theory at least once in recent centuries. Such makeovers, or paradigm shifts, reorder old knowledge into a new framework. Revolutionary ...

To serenade with their high-pitched songs, singing mice inflate a throat sac — a use for air sacs seemingly unknown in any ...