Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

A new study found that microgravity simulated on Earth hindered sperm cell movement, egg fertilization and embryo development ...

Lençóis Maranhenses National Park hosts sand-dune fields that fill up with lagoons every wet season, but the reserve also has ...

Trump's war in Iran is the embodiment of everything that's wrong with our dependence on fossil fuels — and it's highlighting just how vital the transition to renewables is.

Scientists in China have announced the first confirmed sighting of the critically endangered Hainan hare in part of its ...

Experts say building a lunar colony within the next decade, as NASA and Elon Musk want to, will require finding solutions to ...

Endocannabinoids act "like a 'dimmer switch,' fine-tuning neural activity to maintain balance, or homeostasis," Ryan McLaughlin, co-director of the Cannabis Research Center and as ...

The discovery of an enigmatic ape's 18 million year-old fossils in Egypt hints that the ancestors of all living apes, a group ...

The solar system has many more moons than the one we can see in the sky. But how many do we actually know about? And how many ...

Modular robots are easily expandable, know when they're upside down or stuck, and can march forward across all kinds of ...

Antarctica could warm much faster than its surroundings over the next few decades due to a phenomenon known as polar amplification that is well established in the Arctic.

Astronomers have detected small, ruby-like crystals embedded in Martian rocks, which may also hide sapphires created in the ...