A 2025 study identified stress as one of 17 overlapping factors that affect the odds of developing any brain disease, including stroke, late-life depression and dementia. This work suggests that ...

In the first years of the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans were dying at much higher rates than other wealthy nations.

China on Thursday launched a space probe on the country's first mission to retrieve samples from an asteroid and bring them ...

A new drug targeting inflammation in the brain has been shown to bolster the blood-brain barrier in mice, pioneering a ...

The James Webb space telescope's deepest view of a single target yet depicts spinning arcs of light that are galaxies from ...

The first, detailed in a 2022 paper, is 4,000 light-years away, and blasts out 30 to 60 seconds of radio waves every 18 ...

Close to the summit of an underwater mountain west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a jagged landscape of towers rises from the ...

For the first time, scientists have caught a key driver of the ongoing erosion of the atmosphere of Mars in action.

Dolphins use various sounds, such as burst pulses and whistles, to communicate. There are two broad categories of whistles: ...

Scientists in Europe have tested an anti-aging drug cocktail in mice and found that it extended the animals' lifespans by ...

SpaceX's prototype Starship exploded over the Indian Ocean on Tuesday, capping another bumpy test flight for the rocket ...

The stars in a binary can vary widely in mass, size, and brightness, and their interactions often shape their evolution in ...