Samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the asteroid Bennu had organic molecules and minerals and possibly salty water and other life ingredients.
Death by heartbreak doesn't just happen in stories. In real life, severe stress can cause the sometimes-fatal takotsubo syndrome.
Found in a roughly 350-year-old manuscript by Dutch biologist Johannes Swammerdam, the scientific illustration shows the brain of a honeybee drone.
Bats may broadcast their personalities to others from a distance, new experiments suggest, which could play into social dynamics within a colony.
Weather data show how humankind’s burning of fossil fuels made the hot, dry, windy weather more likely, setting the stage for the Los Angeles wildfires.
Mapping fish migration routes and identifying threats is crucial to protecting freshwater species and their habitats, ecologists argue.
Cricket frogs were once thought to hop on the water’s surface. They actually leap in and out of the water in a form of locomotion called porpoising.
These mysterious whitish-gray glows in the northern lights might be cousins of the mauve light streak known as STEVE.
Some sleep machines produce dangerous amounts of white noise, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be used safely It truly pains me to bring you tired parents another round of “Is this bad for ...
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When sick, Nile tilapia seek warmer water. That behavioral fever triggers a specialized immune response, hinting the connection evolved long ago.