Statin therapy produces significant reductions in major vascular events irrespective of age, including in people older than 75 years, according to a new...
Astrophysicists using NASA’s Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) have detected X-rays from a stellar-mass black hole called MAXI J1820+070...
Today, giant pandas are represented by one iconic species, Ailuropoda melanoleuca, and they live only in the understory of particular mountains in southwestern...
Some 250 million years ago (early Triassic epoch), an early relative of dinosaurs and crocodiles lived in what is now a frozen continent, Antarctica, according...
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe successfully completed its first orbit of the Sun on January 19.
Illustration of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe approaching the...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a new dwarf galaxy in our cosmic neighborhood. Named Bedin 1, the galaxy is approximately...
Astronomers using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton spacecraft have found evidence that an invisible force called dark...
Humans are born with operational language processing and memory capacities and can use at least two types of cues to segment otherwise continuous speech,...
A team of researchers at Columbia University has developed a speech brain-computer interface system that translates brain signals into intelligible, recognizable...
A team of astronomers from the Space Telescope Science Institute and the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaii has released data from the...
An international team of scientists has sequenced and analyzed the genomes of representatives from all five major clades within the birds-of-paradise family...
Two new studies, one of which was conducted in young adults and the other in mice, add to evidence for the benefits of a rocking motion during sleep. In...
A lunar rock sample collected by Apollo 14 astronauts in 1971 contains traces of minerals with a chemical composition common to Earth and very unusual...
A team of physicists from the Joint Institute for Lab Astrophysics (JILA) and IMRA America Inc. has measured hundreds of individual quantum energy levels...
A team of astronomers from Japan has discovered a 2.6-km (1.6 mile) wide object in the Kuiper Belt, a distant region of icy debris that extends far beyond...
A team of scientists has discovered the largest individual of any cave salamander in North America — a 9.4-inch (23.8 cm) long specimen of the Berry...
