Astronomers have witnessed a black hole violently shredding a massive star, creating one of the most energetic stellar ...

Gut microbes need something to eat, and when fiber is limited, they may begin consuming proteins from the mucus lining that protects the gut. Researchers found that fiber can suppress this process, ...

Scientists have uncovered why two seemingly opposite ways of targeting the same brain receptor can both promote weight loss. In mice, activating the GIP receptor in the brainstem reduced appetite, ...

Scientists have long thought an unusual genetic system helped ants, bees, and wasps evolve their extraordinary social ...

A widely available food-preservation chemical is emerging as a disturbing factor in rising UK suicide deaths, particularly ...

Scientists have found that the AMOC may be far more vulnerable to rapid warming than to temperature alone. When warming ...

Rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may be leaving a measurable imprint inside the human body. Researchers analyzing more than two decades of U.S. health data found that blood bicarbonate levels ...

COVID-19 can reactivate dormant viruses hiding in the body, including Epstein-Barr, cytomegalovirus, and several herpes ...

Ancient remains from Vietnam suggest diseases like yaws may have been passed from mother to child thousands of years ago, a ...

Researchers have discovered that a gene linked to congenital heart disease acts like an architect for the heart cell’s DNA.

NASA is assembling the foundations of a future Moon Base through a wave of robotic missions and powerful new commercial ...

A supermassive black hole has been found lurking about 30,000 light-years from the center of its galaxy—the first dormant ...