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

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

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 ...

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

A colony of African vervets in Dania Beach raises big questions about how humans can and should manage nonnative species.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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