The very moment two electrical currents slam together to form a lightning bolt has been captured, revealing for the first ...

Ever wondered why our teeth are so sensitive to pain or even just cold drinks? It might be because they first evolved for a very different purpose than chewing half a billion years ago, a study ...

A gently lobbed baseball is easy to see. The same ball, however, can seem to vanish from the hand of a skilled pitcher, ...

South American mummies have become known for their impressive tattoos, but an analysis has found the design inked into the ...

On May 20, 2025, the Food and Drug Administration announced a new stance on who should receive the COVID-19 vaccine.

A spray of perfume or a swipe of lotion could mess with highly reactive chemicals clouding your body, according to new research, leading to unknown health effects.

The mystery of galaxies in the early Universe just got even weirder. A team of astronomers has identified a giant spiral galaxy so well-formed that it already has a stable galactic bar; a long, ...

Sitting might be a comfortable and convenient way to spend much of your day, but a new study of older adults suggests it can ...

Being pregnant in the Viking Age was surely no picnic, but this experience has been largely ignored, in part because there ...

It was big news years ago when Mars orbiters found streaks of what appeared to be water running down Martian cliffs and ...

Yellow fever is a dangerous mosquito-borne virus that, for hundreds of years, has caused sporadic, deadly outbreaks in the ...

Taurine is an amino acid occurring naturally in the body, and found in energy drinks as well as foods like fish and meat – ...