NASA and ESA both shared new images of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS this week, as the agencies gear up for the mysterious ...

In December 1954, Gertrude Elion and colleagues described a new compound they had developed that sent children with leukemia ...

Archaeologists digging at a Mesoamerican site in Mexico have discovered an unusual, cube-shaped human skull. It is the first ...

The CDC's vaccine committee has voted to roll back a universal recommendation that newborns be vaccinated against hepatitis B ...

For decades, helium has been produced with natural gas, generating huge carbon emissions. Now, geologists are looking for new ...

The Geminid meteor shower has begun. The Geminids peak overnight on Dec. 13 and 14, when up to 150 "shooting stars" per hour ...

Scientists invented a new experimental system to study how age-related changes in egg cells make them more prone to ...

A genetic study of 80 skulls found at a Stone Age city in China has revealed that the sacrificed people were mostly men, in ...

Researchers have counted 16,600 fossilized dinosaur footprints and 1,378 swim tracks at a site in Bolivia that showcase a ...

Scientists modeled Europe's future if a key Atlantic current were to collapse and found that the continent faces a much drier ...

Physicists have transformed a decades-old technique for simplifying quantum equations into a reusable, user-friendly ...

A giant rotating filament of the cosmic web may be the largest spinning structure ever seen, and could help reveal how ...