After being born of mostly just hydrogen and helium, a scant 14-ish billion years later the Universe is full of weird planets of wildly varying makes, shapes, and sizes. Well, maybe not shapes, ...

A gut pathogen that causes diarrhea and vomiting is morphing into a dangerous and difficult-to-treat sexually transmitted infection (STI).

Taking a nice hot bath at the end of a long day is a wonderful way to unwind, but the end results can go way beyond simple relaxation.

Superconducting materials can carry electricity with zero heat loss, which is potentially revolutionary for power grids, computer systems, and more – and which makes them of great interest to ...

For now, scientists have a newly identified structure to investigate. Following proteins through these tiny channels could help answer a much larger question: when potentially har ...

It's helpful to know how well the senses of underwater predators are working – both to better understand the ecology and biology of marine life, and to get out of their way should you come into ...

The drugs used to induce general anesthesia differed depending on the species, but even still, consistent patterns turned up in their brain activity.

"By introducing microorganisms into the gut of germ-free mice, we have conclusively demonstrated that gut colonization of microbiota is a prerequisite for feces to float," the aut ...

A lack of good-quality sleep has long been linked to an increased risk of developing dementia, but recent research goes further – giving us an optimal amount of overnight slumber to minimize dementia ...

We can often understand more about the future by looking into the past – and in the case of a new study published in Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, almost 240,000 years into the history of the ...

The researchers recruited 17 experienced recreational freedivers, all men between the ages of 27 and 55, who underwent seven months of standardized freediving training. A Japanese ...