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The Van Allen probe, which studied how the Earth is protected from harmful space radiation, could fall to Earth tonight. Here’s what to know ...

Iranian residents have reported headaches, difficulty breathing, and oil-contaminated rain settling on buildings and cars after the bombing of oil depots ...

Infections from enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) bacteria are the most common cause of travelers’ diarrhea, and they commonly cause childhood diarrhea in low-income regions. In children below ...

A maggot’s age and species can give essential information to forensic entomologists investigating murders. (A single wriggling horse fly maggot, for instance, found on a dead body far from water, gave ...

A large, bright meteor fell over Europe on Sunday, with some observers saying they could hear the rock’s explosive descent ...

The cancellation of a meeting of the committee that guides federal autism research funding follows an announcement that an ...

A new study shows that taking a daily multivitamin could boost longevity, but the results aren’t conclusive ...

Crystal jellyfish have an eerie beauty: thanks to a natural protein, they emit a faint green glow. For decades, researchers ...

The discovery adds to the Archimedes Palimpsest, an important medieval manuscript containing texts from the Greek ...

Konstantina Kilteni is an assistant professor at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and principal investigator of the Touch & Tickle Lab based at Karolinska and the Donders Institute for Brain, ...

A continental collision trapped oil within what is today Iran. The same collision explains why that oil is trapped behind the Strait of Hormuz now ...