Learn why finding no obvious biosignatures on 40 to 80 exoplanets doesn’t mean that life doesn’t exist outside Earth. It just provides a way to narrow the search.

Learn why rising temperatures and carbon dioxide levels could make pollen-bearing plants bloom earlier and live longer.

Learn why drastic drops in temperature sent European hunter-gathers in search of a warmer place to live.

First-of-its-kind study links pollution produced by wildfires to emergency mental health visits.

Learn how gravity and mass are pulling two stars into tighter, faster orbit around each other, with an explosive collision inevitable.

The method would help find a second life for the plastics that make up the bulk of thousands of turbine blades in the U.S. alone.

Melting moon dust, found at the bottom of astronaut's shoes, would save on costly, heavy transport of solar cells in space.

Discover intricate mechanisms in the primates’ throats that help them rapidly shift their pitch up and down.

The collection of Metoposaurid temnospondyl fossils unearthed in Wyoming tell an incomplete story.

Learn what part of the brain keeps track of food poisoning and why.

Animal studies could lead to blood tests that could guide doctors in better matching drugs to patients based on immune system biomarkers.

Tools were once thought to have arisen out of Africa and Europe, then spread eastward. New findings challenge that assumption.

The task, which even conventional supercomputers can’t perform, could improve online security and make some processes, such as choosing a jury, truly fair.

Scientists used AI to analyze millions of heartbeats, link them to potential arrythmia, then build an algorithm based on how the heart talks to the brain about its irregularities.

Learn what you should do if you live near an active volcano and how to stay safe before and after an eruption.

Learn how a pair of kinases could help plant scientists engineer crops resistant to infectious diseases and boost wheat's immunity.