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

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 ...

Scientists tracking thousands of animals found that our physical presence can reshape where wildlife moves and lives, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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