"The book, while scary and disheartening, is truth-seeking and ultimately optimistic. Ritchie doesn’t come to bury science; he comes to fix it.

Side-effects of bexarotene rule out use but trial suggests other drugs may halt multiple sclerosis

A new study by a cardiologist has found that keto diets promote heart disease and that even though you can lose weight initially, most people gain it all back.

A new study shows that ash tree populations are not growing fast enough to replace the trees killed by ash borer larvae

Critics doubt that Emotiv's earphone-style sensors can reliably track things like stress and attention—and some worry the technology will become yet another form of workplace surveillance.

The US Food and Drug Administration hasn't regulated the 10,000 chemicals added to your food, according to a petition filed Wednesday by groups representing pediatricians, the environment, public health, as well as food and consumer safety advocates.

Analysis of eight "brain boosting" supplements and two work-out supplements identified drugs that are illegal in the US, but are prescribed in other countries.

It was an old idea of Stephen Hawking’s: Unseen “primordial” black holes might be the hidden dark matter. A new series of studies has shown how the theory can work.

The recent discovery of possibly biogenic phosphine on Venus reminds us that at least some of these ingredients exist elsewhere in the solar system too.

Rare woodlands are vital stores of biodiversity but are under threat of being lost entirely

Enceladus may be even more interesting than we thought.

Greenpeace says bloc must get a grip on reducing greenhouse gases from livestock or risk missing Paris agreement targets

AsianScientist (Sep. 23, 2020) – Using detailed three-dimensional (3D) scans of fossilized shells, scientists in Japan have identified a species of mollusk that grew on living sea turtles about 100 million years ago. Their findings, which shed light on ancient parasitic or symbiotic relationships, have been published in Palaios.

The historic first image of a black hole unveiled last year has now been turned into a movie. The short sequence of frames shows how the appearance of the black hole’s surroundings changes over years as its gravity stirs the material around it into a constant maelstrom.

A black hole 55 million lightyears away is wobbling and rotating in interesting and helpful ways, scientists have said. The object known as M87* has undergone major changes over time, astronomers have found after detailed research.

Pandemic policy must include defining and measuring what we mean by mild infection.

Drinking at "safe" levels was shown to reduce the amount of a person's total brain tissue.

While on Earth, satellites are kept in immaculate cleanrooms to protect their instruments from harmful dust particles. If those instruments fail to function properly in space, however, it could be because of particle contamination during launch. Now a British company has developed a device to identify whether this is the case.

It sounds like the stuff of nightmares: a giant, dark, steamy hangar filled with a billion cockroaches feeding off food scraps. But these roaches are not just household pests, they could be the key to more sustainable farming and reducing landfill.

Green light therapy resulted in about a 60% reduction in the pain intensity of the headache phase and the number of days per month people experienced migraines.