Smaller fish species are more nutritious, lower in mercury and less susceptible to overfishing, a Cornell-led research team ...

AI-generated papers are infiltrating Google Scholar, raising concerns over academic integrity and the spread of misleading ...

Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...

When exposed to formaldehyde, which was also detected, ammonia can form amino acids, the building blocks of proteins.

A new study shows that black holes consume gas which creates an outburst that cools nearby gas for the black hole to consume ...

Experts from the global Earth science community have pieced together what happened during the massive Sikkim flood to try to help others prepare for similar disasters.

Ateneo de Manila University researchers have found that using internet memes to teach science can significantly improve ...

Depressed drinkers experience alcohol’s pleasure and stimulation, challenging beliefs about self-medication and addiction.

Medical research depends on government money -- even a day's delay in the intricate funding process throws science off-kilter ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

Science dioramas of yesteryear can highlight the biases of the time. Exhibit experts are reimagining, annotating — and sometimes mothballing — the scenes.

In the early days of the second Trump administration, a directive to pause all public communication from the Department of ...