On June 19, the six-wheeled explorer officially completed the longest day trip of any robot vehicle on another planet. In a ...

The membrane-bound organelle appears to play a huge role in helping cells sort, discard, and recycle their contents. It's ...

A pet cat in Florida may have made scientific history by enabling the discovery of not one but two new strains of viruses.

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This association seems to suggest that Monday anxiety affects the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, the body's main ...

Volcanic eruptions can destroy essential infrastructure, ground air traffic for days, wipe out entire cities, disrupt the ...

New research highlights a crucial time window very early on in life, during which the introduction of eggs and peanut butter ...

Significant brain defects known as Chiari malformations could be down the genes some of us have inherited from Neanderthals, ...

Emergency vaccination during outbreaks of diseases like cholera, Ebola and measles have over the past quarter-century reduced ...

Every time you take off from Heathrow, land at JFK, or pass through any major airport, you might be inadvertently announcing ...

Disaster victims trapped beneath the rubble of a collapsed building or mine may one day be rescued by a tiny and unlikely ...

Walk through any trendy suburb and you might find a new "wellness" studio offering ice baths or "contrast therapy" (a sauna ...