Webb’s latest image of the Helix Nebula reveals a dramatic close-up of a dying star shedding its outer layers. The detailed ...

Home fireplaces and wood stoves are quietly driving a large share of winter air pollution, even though only a small number of ...

Researchers have demonstrated that quantum entanglement can link atoms across space to improve measurement accuracy. By ...

A 5,500-year-old skeleton from Colombia has revealed the oldest known genome of the bacterium linked to syphilis and related ...

Cancer doesn’t evolve by pure chaos. Scientists have developed a powerful new method that reveals the hidden rules guiding how cancer cells gain and lose whole chromosomes—massive genetic shifts that ...

A Roman-era skeleton discovered in southern England has finally given up her secrets after more than a decade of debate.

A newly uncovered immune chain reaction in the gut may explain why people with inflammatory bowel disease face a much higher ...

Alzheimer’s may destroy memory by flipping a single molecular switch that tells neurons to prune their own connections. Researchers found that both amyloid beta and inflammation converge on the same ...