A moon lost in interstellar darkness may still be able to hold on to liquid water, no star required. A modeling study ...

Thirty minutes on an exercise bike sounds like a better cardiovascular workout than thirty minutes sitting in a hot bath. But ...

How do you wash apples? Do you rinse them under the tap, scrub them thoroughly, or just wipe them with your shirt? Well, one ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a 4000-year-old structure that is laid out in a way strongly reminiscent of Stonehenge. Though ...

In 2010, researchers searching through viral DNA stumbled upon something that didn’t belong there. Inside the genome of a ...

Scientists have found an unlikely ally in the fight against hair loss: a natural sweetener. By using stevioside (the compound ...

Now, conservationists have pulled off a remarkable rescue. According to a new study, a breeding and reintroduction effort ...

Artistic illustration of Neanderthals returning from a hunt. Credit: Hugo Prades/IPHES-CERCA. At a prehistoric rock shelter ...

Untold numbers of brown dwarfs roam the cosmos, like the one in this artist’s concept. But only a few dozen have been studied in detail with space-based telescopes. With the help of NASA’s SPHEREx, ...

A loaf of bread today may look much like one baked 60 years ago. But the modern wheat can contain substantially less iron, ...

It usually begins when bacteria enter the bloodstream and settle on heart tissue. There, they can form infected clumps that ...

In 1991, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles stumbled into a fight with the American beef industry. A children’s alphabet book ...