Researchers tasked an algorithm with predicting cancer patients’ risk of dying. For some people, it was shockingly accurate ...

Rutaecarpine is touted as a fix to rapidly flush caffeine out of the body, but it may be toxic when mixed with Tylenol ...

Launched atop an H3 rocket from Tanegashima Space Center just after 3:40 P.M. EDT on Monday, the Martian Moons Exploration ...

How close is too close for encounters between sensitive spacecraft orbiting Earth? With a mysterious approach to another ...

For the first time ever, a spacecraft will travel all the way to the Mars system and return. But first, it has to get through the launch ...

For decades, scientists thought that in order to read other people’s emotions, the brain processed sensory information from faces and voices in separate areas. But new research shows otherwise—seeing ...

Will McCurdy is a freelance journalist from the UK whose work has appeared in the New York Times, BBC News, the Guardian, the Times of London, Slate and Vice, among other outlets.

The beginning of fall and back-to-school time means cold virus season has arrived. Usually, colds hit as lesser-evil ...

As far-fetched as it may seem, quirks of orbital mechanics could allow hundreds of planets to be packed around a star ...

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Late last month, Anthropic claimed it had discovered a curious stretch of DNA in a virus called a bacteriophage that repeats ...

In past research, microplastics have been shown to cause inflammation, oxidative stress and decreased mitochondrial activity.