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

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 ...

NASA has successfully tested a system that allows satellites to navigate without GPS by using other spacecraft and debris as ...

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

Moderate calorie restriction lowered an immune protein called C3 that appears to help drive chronic inflammation as the body ...

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 ...

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 ...

DNA from a nearly 190-year-old museum specimen has helped scientists confirm a distinct Himalayan pangolin species hiding in ...

Britain’s postwar sugar rationing created a rare natural experiment that let researchers examine how early sugar exposure ...

A Manhattan-sized ice island has broken away from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier after years of growing fractures weakened its ...

A major study found that adults with depression show disrupted production of new neurons in the hippocampus, potentially ...