Scientists have traced the evolutionary origin of humans' outer ears to the gills of ancient fish through a series of ...

Capnocytophaga infections in humans are rare, especially in historically healthy individuals. But when it occurs, the disease ...

Female mammals typically carry two X chromosomes — one from each parent — and a new study suggests that the maternal X is ...

Scientists have found an elusive third form of magnetism that could help solve a longstanding puzzle about superconductors.

A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...

A historic winter snowstorm has reached the Gulf Coast, smothering the region in Arctic air and dropping record-breaking amounts of snow on northern Florida.

A rare breed of star recently discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope spins faster by feeding on its stellar siblings.

A man was diagnosed with skeletal fluorosis, which likely emerged due to him inhaling substances that damaged his bones.

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator craft could become the first commercial jet to break the sound barrier since Concorde ...

A nuclear fusion reactor in China, dubbed the "artificial sun," has broken its own record to bring humanity one step closer to near-limitless clean energy.

New photos of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) suggest that it could be disintegrating due to "thermal stress" from its recent ...

Data collected by NASA's InSight lander suggest that ancient internal processes are responsible for the "Martian dichotomy" ...