Uterus transplants are becoming more common, opening up the possibility of pregnancy and parenthood to people with certain ...

Cave fish develop taste buds on their heads and chins—and even in humans, taste cells grow in truly unexpected locations ...

The new interconnected breed of autocrats gains and retains power by deception, globally undermining democracies through ...

A long-awaited calculation of the W boson’s mass agrees with theory, contradicting a previous anomaly that had raised the ...

You might think of asteroids as just rocks of various sizes floating around in space. But they’re vastly more complex than ...

The difficulties of the Svalbard seed repository illustrate why we need to prevent climate disaster rather than plan for it ...

A strange sound dubbed “biotwang” was first heard bouncing around the Mariana Trench 10 years ago, and scientists have ...

Because empathy can allow people to connect across political, racial and economic divides, it lays a foundation for acts of ...

In the U.S. in the early 1960s the distributor of a thalidomide drug was impatient to get it on the market. But FDA medical ...

Growing awareness of how addiction and trauma are intertwined has birthed a new generation of treatment strategies.

Math’s “best-choice problem” could help humans become better decision-makers, at everything from choosing the best job ...