For nearly a century, astronomers have known that the universe is expanding. Most galaxies are carried outward with the flow ...

On India’s railways, stowaways are not limited to ticketless passengers. Some arrive without limbs, luggage or much interest in timetables.

Fossilized footprints are among the most abundant traces dinosaurs left behind. But linking a track to its corresponding ...

For more than 6 decades, NCAR has shown that open, collaborative science can save lives, support economic resilience and ...

The results illustrate a stark divide. People in the top 10% of enrichment scores saw a 38% lower risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. “Our findings are encouraging, suggesting that consistently ...

The wearable sensor developed by researchers at the University of Maryland, known as “Smart Underwear,” continuously tracks hydrogen in intestinal gas. The technology offers one of the first ...

Autism has always been framed as a condition that mostly affects boys. Yet after tracking more than 2.7 million people born ...

Previous observations of stars whipping around an unseen mass—especially a bright star called S2—have pointed to an object ...

Scientists call this speck LUCA — the Last Universal Common Ancestor. Since the concept of LUCA first emerged, it has ...

Stuck in front of our screens all day, we often ignore our senses beyond sound and vision. And yet they are always at work. When we’re more alert we feel the rough and smooth surfaces of objects, the ...

You know the feeling. You just got home from a date that actually went well. The conversation flowed nicely, the pasta was ...

A new study, published in the journal PLOS One, argues that this kind of enduring grief after a pet’s death can reach the ...