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The team tested this new strategy in mice and lab dishes.

A woman's emotional well-being and her mental outlook play important roles in pregnancy.

Lemurs include a diverse group of primates, from sun-worshipping ring-tailed lemurs to the peculiar, nocturnal aye-aye.

Scientists using sound recordings from underwater nuclear bomb detectors have discovered the distinct song of a previously unknown populatio...

Archaeologists are trying to solve the mystery of a girl who was buried with the head of at least one finch in her mouth hundreds of years a...

Most marine creatures get their meals in the water, but snowflake moray eels have a strange adaptation that lets them grab and swallow prey...

The benefits of vaccinating young people against COVID-19 outweigh the risks, experts say.

From the fallen angel to the horned goat, we trace 8 real historical images of Satan.

Greenhouse gases are atmospheric gases that absorb infrared radiation and trap heat in the atmosphere. Increases in emissions of these gases...

As many as one in three cases of depression are resistant to standard treatments. Could laughing gas be an alternative?

The largest dinosaur from Australia was as long as a basketball court and taller than a two-story building.

Iron shackles around a skeleton's legs secured the ankles with a padlock and may provide the first direct evidence of an enslaved person in...

Russia's space chief is threatening to leave the International Space Station program in 2025 unless the United States lifts sanctions agains...

A hoard of silver coins minted in the Carolingian Empire may have been part of a historic ransom to save Paris from a Viking invasion.

People who lived in East Asia since at least 40,000 years ago disappeared during the ice age.

Watch an upcoming solar eclipse indirectly with this home-made viewer.

A 7-year-old boy who accidentally got wet cement all over his head and torso ended up in the emergency room after the cement mixture burned...

If all the circulating SARS-CoV-2 particles were gathered together into one place, they would weigh somewhere between the weight of an apple...

Seventeen decapitated skeletons dating back about 1,700 years have been discovered in three Roman cemeteries at Knobb's Farm in Cambridgeshi...

The Dark Energy Survey just released its most comprehensive results. But did they really prove Einstein wrong?

There are a few possibilities for why small dogs can be so menacing.

It's impossible to know for sure the deadliest day in U.S. history because you can end up comparing apples with oranges.

Researchers in Israel say they've found a possible link between the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine and cases of heart inflammation called...

Here's how we might stop the flow of time.

A team of scientists has gotten their best look yet at a gamma-ray burst, the most dramatic type of explosion in the universe.