Participants in two small trials lost dangerous fat around their internal organs. This fat is linked to health issues like ...

Optogenetics, recognized by the 2026 medicine Nobel, makes cells respond to light, including eye cells that normally relay ...

A decades-old claim linking caregiving stress to risk of death has stuck around, hampering research into its benefits. But ...

Herugavialis is the new name for a fossil found in the same rocks that built the Great Sphinx. The reptile is a unique branch ...

Bigger bodies and wider beaks help birds like the bare-throated bellbird belt out calls louder than a jackhammer, but why ...

Microblazars — a miniature version of blazars — may be responsible for mysterious ultra-high-energy particles.

A waterborne pathogen flourishes while toads shelter underground. The finding may help conservationists rethink how to ...

Fresh boulder tracks on Mars could reveal how a quake shook the planet and help scientists detect future tremors from orbit.

Scientists graded every river and stream in the contiguous United States, flagging specific repairs each one needs to support ...

If you're one of those unfortunate souls who steps outside in shorts for thirty seconds and returns looking like a human ...

A female humpback whale may have spent days with her stillborn calf. This rare sighting may suggest that baleen whales ...

Avian flu, overfishing, and a super El Niño have decimated Peru’s largest colony of Humboldt penguins. Scientists are holding ...