Thanks to an underwater survey robot, oceanographers are getting the first-ever readings collected from underneath East ...

Perpetrators of intimate partner violence were five times more likely to have bought a firearm in the past year.

“The fact that we can now watch stars explode and immediately see the structure of the material being blasted into space is ...

Children who spend more than 30 minutes on social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat are likely to ...

A common childhood virus, BK virus, dormant in the urinary tract, is now linked to DNA damage increasing bladder cancer risk.

Scientists have observed the largest-known rotating structure in the cosmos - a gargantuan thread-like assemblage of hundreds ...

Using less ipilimumab appears to make melanoma immunotherapy both safer and more effective, with dramatically better response ...

Researchers have built a fully implantable device that sends light-based messages directly to the brain. Mice learned to ...

While an endless summer might sound nice, an extended period of heat will wreak havoc on the environment—humans included.

A foot fossil found in Ethiopia belonged to an ancient human. The finding could knock one of the most famous names in human evolution from her spot on the family tree.

Scientists debate mosquito origins as fossil evidence and genomic studies clash, revealing new insights into their ...

The earliest domestic cat arrived in China during the Tang dynasty’s rule between 618AD and 907AD, likely through the ...