A long-running British trial has found that people who drank diet beverages while trying to lose weight kept the pounds off about as well as those who...
In ferromagnets, like a refrigerator magnet, atomic spins line up in the same direction. In antiferromagnets, neighboring spins point in opposite directions...
Glucosamine, a widely used over-the-counter supplement for joint pain, may worsen outcomes in people with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias,...
The oldest undisputed animal fossils, from the Ediacaran biota, are about 574 million years old, but chemical traces left by sponges, known as lipid biomarkers,...
Named ‘hypersoft X-ray sources,’ these objects give off very low-energy X-rays that are difficult to detect.
This composite image shows the locations...
Although the famous Carrington Event of 1859 is often described as the first major space weather event to affect technology, earlier incidents did occur....
Paleontologists have described a previously unknown species of mosasaur — a group of extinct marine reptiles that patrolled Cretaceous seas alongside...
The Solar System’s smallest planet has contracted by nearly 19 km (12 miles) across, as crater debris masked telltale wrinkles on its surface, according...
In experiments in Thailand, Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) learned to ignore an enticing but ineffective route to food and quickly adapted when a familiar...
Astronomers have combined 2,884 Type Ia supernovae — which are used to measure cosmic distances — with cosmic microwave background and galaxy-mapping...
Researchers tracking grunts, whimpers and laughter across two geographically separated chimpanzee populations found that vocal differences sharpen with...
Researchers have identified more than 1,200 locations in the human genome associated with personality traits, offering the most detailed look yet at the...
In a pair of papers published in the journal Physical Review Letters, a team of MIT physicists has shown that the neutrino laser — a concept proposed...
A new camera technique in Congo’s Lomami National Park reveals how monkeys, pangolins and civets divide up life between the ground, the understory and...
New results from the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) offer a tantalizing hint of Higgs bosons interacting with one...
Researchers at the University of South Carolina have developed a nanoparticle-based treatment that appears to improve performance on standard memory and...
