Researchers warn that halting federal contracts for mRNA vaccine research could weaken pandemic preparedness and slow medical advances.

Infrared cameras in Costa Rica revealed that the world’s largest carnivorous bat maintains close social bonds through wing wraps and prey sharing.

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Before exploding, a star shed most of its layers, giving a glimpse at a massive star’s deep interior. The event may represent a new kind of supernova.

Over the last half 50 years, fractals have challenged ideas about geometry and pushed math, science and technology into unexpected areas.

Continuous glucose monitors are now readily available. With guidance, they can help people make small dietary and lifestyle changes for better health.

Human mammary glands contain sugars that avian influenza can latch onto to infect cells, researchers report August 8 at medRxiv.org. The finding, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, raises the ...

At an average age of 70, these women divers in South Korea still forage in the sea up to 10 hours a day and spend more than half of that time underwater.

The Shape of Wonder humanizes scientists by demystifying the scientific process and showing the personal side of researchers.

A Kenyan site shows early hominids transported stone 13 kilometers for toolmaking as early as 2.6 million years ago.

In The Martians, journalist David Baron recounts scientific and public debate over purported intelligent life on the Red Planet.

Women face a small rise in fracture risk within 10 years of stopping therapy, suggesting the need for additional monitoring.