New measurements taken with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have deepened the scientific controversy of the Hubble tension —...
Some people just can't stop scratching after they're bitten by a mosquito — but not everyone gets itchy after a bug bite or similar...
Global warming is burying huge amounts of silver beneath the South China Sea — and the same could be happening across the world's...
Scientists have discovered exactly how earthquakes trigger quartz into forming large gold nuggets — finally solving a mystery...
Scientists have identified molecules in the blood that could potentially be used to identify young adults at risk of developing colorectal...
On a warm spring day in 2019, researchers bored into the earth beneath Cairo's urban streets. Just over a kilometer away, the Great...
Researchers who thought ancient hunters threw spears to kill mammoths and mastodons may have got the wrong end of the stick, archaeologists...
Archaeologists now have a better understanding of why ritual tooth removal was practiced in ancient Taiwan and other parts of Asia...
Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier got its nickname the "Doomsday Glacier" for its potential to flood coastlines around the world if it...
Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier got its nickname the “Doomsday Glacier” for its potential to flood coastlines around the world...
The Milky Way has a 50-50 chance of colliding with a nearby galaxy in the next 10 billion years, a new study finds.Yet while those...
Earth's days were once more than two hours longer than they are now, thanks to the moon drifting thousands of miles farther away in...
The space rock that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago was a rare strike from an asteroid beyond Jupiter, a new study details....
Eco-friendly hotels increasingly are asking guests to forgo daily housekeeping or use their towels more than once. At the same time,...
Women with cancer in one breast have the option to have both breasts removed, as a precaution. However, new research finds that these...
High plateaus rise in the interior of continents thanks to churning deep inside Earth hundreds of miles from where they eventually...
Scientists may have discovered the world's oldest arc-slicing fault in Northwestern Australia's remote deserts. The finding demonstrates...
Women with endometriosis may have a substantially increased risk of ovarian cancer, new research suggests.In the study, women with...
