Pachyderm whiskers are more flexible at the tip than the base, allowing elephants to complete delicate tasks with their incredibly strong trunks

‘Extraordinary’ brain network discovery changes our understanding of Parkinson’s disease

Brookhaven Lab Shuts Down Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)

The quirky geology behind Olympic curling stones

U.S. life expectancy hits all-time high

Jupiter, the solar system’s largest planet, appears to be smaller and flatter than we knew

Colon cancer is killing more young people in the U.S. than any other cancer

Mystery tower fossils may be a whole new kind of life

A study of more than 320,000 people found that night owls are more likely to engage in behaviors that increase the risk of cardiovascular disease such as smoking and sleeping poorly.

The bacterium behind syphilis has a far more ancient history than we thought