Seemingly random charging of identical materials depends on the carbonaceous molecules stuck to their surfaces ...

She was the recipient of the Victor Cohn Prize for Medical Science Reporting in 2018.

Snowpiercer, a graphic novel, movie and TV series, imagines a different deep-freeze scenario: Geoengineering gone haywire. To mitigate global warming, scientists released aerosols into the atmosphere ...

Nearly one third of sharks studied near the Bahamas’ Eleuthera Island were found to have caffeine, painkillers and other ...

Platypuses are the first mammals known to have hollow melanosomes, pigment-bearing structures found in the hair of many animals.

Satellite data show that U.S. cities have more nighttime cloud cover than nearby countryside, and building height and density ...

Each year, thousands of people in the U.S. die waiting for donated organs. A new book shares how organs from other species could change that.

When combined with clinical markers, smartwatch data was able to help detect insulin resistance with nearly 90 percent ...

Heat and humidity now severely limit light physical activity for millions of people around the world, with older adults facing the greatest burden.

A genetic mutation tied to keeping the brain healthy at high altitudes may point to a way to repair nerve damage, experiments in mice show.

Levels of six RNA molecules in the blood ID’d older adults likely to survive two more years. Whether it will work for other ...

People quickly normalize extreme weather. Simple visuals highlighting abrupt change could help climate change break through our mental blind spots.