More than 1,000 volunteers buried cotton underwear across Switzerland to help scientists measure how active different soils are. The faster the fabric disappeared, the more biological activity was ...

Ultra-processed foods make up a huge share of the American diet, and new research suggests they may carry another serious ...

Beneath the rocky slopes of Mount Timpanogos lies far more ice than anyone walking across the surface might suspect.

Researchers used AI to search through more than 100 million possible settings for 3D-printing a high-performance NASA alloy. After only 40 experiments, the system identified six successful ...

Ancient teeth and human DNA are revealing a surprising history of insect eating. Modern humans in northern Eurasia appear to ...

Today’s mysterious gravitational-wave background may preserve clues about how the Universe’s first supermassive black holes ...

Ancient fossils suggest insects conquered land through a long amphibious phase rather than making an abrupt jump from water to dry ground. A newly identified 324-million-year-old species still carried ...

Astronomers have captured their clearest image yet of Betelgeuse’s long-suspected companion, potentially ending a search that lasted about 100 years. The surprisingly massive hidden star could help ...

The belief that huge doses of vitamin C can ward off colds was popularized more than 50 years ago by Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling. Since then, larger studies have found that vitamin C does not ...

Scientists have found a surprising way to potentially switch on an unusual form of magnetism in ruthenium dioxide, a material ...

Scientists created smart nanoparticles that can both illuminate hidden glioblastoma cells during surgery and destroy ...

Researchers discovered a brain-based “brake” that can shut down chronic nerve pain in mice by calming an overactive pain ...