Scientists have found "supercorals" in Hawaii’s Kāne’ohe Bay, where a reef is thriving despite development, dredging, sewage and high temperatures

Scientists are close to engineering a spicy tomato, after discovering the red fruit - a close relative of the pepper - still carries an inactive gene to produce capsaicin…

Scientists are close to engineering a spicy tomato, after discovering the red fruit - a close relative of the pepper - still carries an inactive gene to produce capsaicin…

As the Himalayas melt, thousands of dangerous floods may sweep through the mountain range

Astronomers Just Mapped a Pulsar's Surface for the First Time.

Chimps respond to music in ways similar to people, a new study finds

Smaller than a sparrow, a 99-million-year-old bird preserved in a piece of Burmese amber has traits not seen in any other bird, living or extinct

Stanford researchers studying MDMA say they’ve identified separate brain pathways that activate addiction and social behavior

Elephants Rarely Get Cancer, Now We Know Why (2015)

Scientists just recorded a blue whale's heart beat for the first time, according to a new study

Scientists studied six patients who had half of their brain removed during childhood to treat severe epilepsy

Earth May Be a 1-in-700-Quintillion Kind of Place

Iranian veterinarians whittled dog bones into pins that they successfully used to fix broken pigeon wings and get the birds flying again

Termites Cannibalize Their Co-Workers for the Good of the Colony

Lessons from Research into Buttons

A volcano off the coast of Alaska has been blowing giant undersea bubbles up to a quarter mile wide, according to a new study

Spending time in the sun can make your gut microbiome healthier, according to a new study

stronomers have all but confirmed the universe has at least one galaxy that’s woefully deficient in dark matter

Scientists studying cuneiform tablets from Assyrian and Babylonian astrologers have found the oldest known mentions of auroras

An archaeological excavation in Jerusalem begun 125 years ago has wrapped up with the discovery of an elaborate, Roman-era street connecting two religious destinations that was likely built by Pontius Pilate

A group of scientists claim they've identified the ancestral homeland of modern humans in Africa

From 440 to 25,000: One Humpback Whale Population’s Amazing Recovery - In the late 1950s, only 440 humpback whales — or 1.6 percent of their onetime number — were swimming around the southwestern Atlantic Ocean.

Saharan silver ants can travel at 108 body lengths a second, according to new research

Scientists have announced a new gene-editing tool called "prime editing" that avoids some of the pitfalls of CRISPR's genetic "scissors" approach

It's not just mothers: Men who drink in the months before conception might increase their baby's risk of congenital heart disease.

In Russia’s Space Graveyard, Locals Scavenge Fallen Spacecraft (2018)

The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race (1999)

Fungus-farming ants may hold secret to fighting drug-resistant microbes

Scientists have found Bronze Age baby bottles used to feed milk to infants in Germany thousands of years ago

Telling Alzheimer's and dementia apart might be as simple as watching how people walk, a new study suggests.

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