A massive study of ancient and modern DNA from thousands of West Eurasian people has identified nearly 500 genetic variants ...

La Niño is one of the phases of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) – a natural climate phenomenon. It usually occurs in ...

Cocaine exposure had surprising effects on the fish’s movement. Right from the get go, salmon exposed to benzoylecgonine ...

From the trails of the Angeles National Forest to the Sandia Mountains of New Mexico, a geographic pattern is emerging in the cases of 11 scientists.

A newly discovered virus hiding inside a common gut bacterium could help explain one of medicine’s long-standing mysteries: why a microbe found in both healthy people and cancer patients is linked to ...

Magnetic domains can take on a wide range of structures. In certain soft magnetic materials, they form complex zig-zag ...

Researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, working with colleagues in Norway and Chile, recreated the Aharonov–Bohm effect using water waves in a vortex tank, finding unexpected ...

Scientists have identified the precise edge of the Milky Way's star-forming disc by studying the ages of over 1,00,000 stars.

A strange, scale-like rock pattern spotted by NASA’s Curiosity rover is catching scientists’ attention on Mars. The images ...

In a National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded study, researchers developed a cancer assessment tool that can identify high-risk patients and the tumor cells linked to that risk.

Learn how heat in these regions is a mix of geography, seasonal weather patterns, and human activity.

Rabbi Bruce D. Forman discusses Pesach Sheini, a quiet holiday on the Jewish calendar that teaches that it’s not too late.