Artists impression of the second-generation planet orbiting HS 0209+0832, the first such planet to be found orbiting a white ...

The brain’s ability to process sound more consistently may influence how well you’re able to discriminate between different ...

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Climate-driven threats to rice harvests are changing an iconic cereal. Rice Krispies have lost the one ingredient you’d ...

For the ancient Maya, red was the color of life. They painted walls, decorated sacred objects, and even covered the dead with ...

An experiment shows that salt-loving microorganisms can reproduce under some of the harsh conditions thought possible beneath ...

Scientists searching for alien signals may have stumbled upon a rapidly spinning dead star near the Milky Way’s center, but ...

Woodpeckers never naturally colonized Hawaii. But nature hates a vacuum, so evolution in Hawaiʻi developed its own version.

Some toothpastes marketed as natural contain it, while others do not. The words on the front of the tube cannot tell us ...

Commercial fishing has had a profound impact on the diversity and sustainability of fish populations. The fishing industry ...

Scientists found that plants combine light signals in ways that may distort their sense of direction, creating an effect ...

Someone — or something — struck a Neanderthal in the face with such force that a front tooth split down the middle. The blow ...