Giant kangaroos that lived during the Ice Age may not have been as slow and grounded as once believed. A new study finds ...

Chemotherapy’s gut damage turns out to have a surprising upside. By changing nutrient availability in the intestine, it ...

Rare rocks buried deep in central Australia have revealed how a valuable niobium deposit formed during the breakup of an ...

In Guatemala’s Western Highlands, researchers found that the drinking water people trust most may actually be the riskiest.

Alzheimer’s may be driven far more by genetics than previously thought, with one gene playing an outsized role. Researchers ...

A rare fossil discovery in Ethiopia has pushed the known range of Paranthropus hundreds of miles farther north than ever before. The 2.6-million-year-old jaw suggests this ancient relative of humans ...

Europa’s subsurface ocean might be getting fed after all. Scientists found that salty, nutrient-rich surface ice can become ...

New research suggests that auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia may come from a brain glitch that confuses inner thoughts for external voices. Normally, the brain predicts the sound of its own ...

Chemists at UCLA are showing that some of organic chemistry’s most famous “rules” aren’t as unbreakable as once thought. By creating bizarre, cage-shaped molecules with warped double bonds—structures ...

Researchers have identified a promising new weapon against triple-negative breast cancer, one of the most aggressive forms of ...

A new study reveals that super agers over 80 have a distinct genetic edge. They are much less likely to carry the gene most ...

Scientists studying genetic data from over a quarter million people have uncovered new clues about what controls how fast the gut moves. They identified multiple DNA regions linked to bowel movement ...