Beluga whales avoid inbreeding by switching partners over time, helping a small, isolated population stay genetically healthy ...

New research shows ancient tropical oceans once held more oxygen than cooler regions, reshaping where early life could ...

Daily routines change, and many older adults find that learning new processes becomes more difficult over time. Slower ...

Evidence from fossil shells suggests that falling seawater calcium helped lock away carbon dioxide and helped cool Earth after the dinosaurs.

Repeated flower designs on ancient pottery hint that early village life relied on counting and shared ideas way before math ...

Earth’s atmosphere is slowly leaking into space, and new research shows some of it reaches the Moon, where it may be ...

Diabetes remission is defined as achieving an HbA1c (average blood sugar) level of less than 6.5 percent for at least one ...

A rare Homo habilis skeleton from Kenya reveals how early humans moved, climbed, and adapted more than two million years ago.

A shy, ferret-sized predator called the coastal marten has been quietly hanging on in the forests of southern Oregon and northern California.

Tiny self-propelled nanorobots use body chemistry to navigate directly to tumors and deliver cancer drugs more effectively.

New evidence shows that a tiny barrier inside solid-state battery cells can decide whether fast-charging will be common in the near future.

New one-dose treatment edits a gene in the liver, disabling the ANGPTL3 protein and significantly lowers cholesterol.