But new research published this month suggests that our body tends to undergo a dramatic wave of age-related molecular ...

Are we alone? For a moment on August 15, 1977, it certainly looked like the answer might be no. That night the Big Ear radio observatory at the Ohio State University was blasted by a remarkably ...

Even Earth’s mightiest telescopes aren’t up to the task of imaging Apollo lunar landing sites. A lack of resolution is the ...

A long-running research endeavor reveals key chemical players that cement memories in place—and still more have yet to be ...

Two physicists have come across infinitely many novel equations for pi while trying to develop a unifying theory of the ...

The Oropouche virus, which causes a disease nicknamed “sloth fever” for one of the animals that can be infected, has seen its ...

Tech firms, oil companies and the U.S. government are investing billions of dollars in carbon capture technology to suck ...

The human being is a “social animal,” as Aristotle suggested. We have a fundamental need to belong. Yet we are living in a ...

This is “a strong ridge even for midsummer” and even more so for the tail end of the season, says Andrew Taylor, a ...

Prescribing” community resources and activities, like art classes and cycling groups, can improve our health and our health ...

A survey of the Dolmen of Menga suggests that the stone tomb’s Neolithic builders had an understanding of science ...

“If the cosmological constant is wrong, all bets are off about what’s right,” says Adam G. Riess, a cosmologist at Johns ...