The science of the sun and its effects on the solar system is a sprawling discipline that expects a very exciting 2025 ...

Martin Picard directs the Mitochondrial Psychobiology Group at Columbia University’s Department of Neurology, where he serves as an associate professor of Behavioral Medicine.

Bits of DNA from mitochondria can skip surprisingly fast into our genome and may reduce lifespan M ost of us remember two ...

The familiar zodiac constellations are defined by Earth’s motion around the sun, but they don’t define your fate ...

Artificial versions of nanoscale soccer-ball-like structures called brochosomes might be used to make new forms of military ...

Affection in infants was long thought to be generated by the satisfactions of feeding. Studies of young rhesus monkeys now indicate that love derives mainly from close bodily contact ...

According to a tenet scientists call the cosmological principle, our place in space is in no way exceptional. But recent ...

Repeated exposure to outrage-inducing news or events can lead to emotional exhaustion. An expert who studies online outrage ...

In a new book, a science journalist recounts the story of a lifesaving treatment for infection that scientists broadly ...

The sun is bidding farewell to 2024 with a bang—or rather several bangs. Our star produced three powerful flares on December ...

Greg Breed is an associate professor of quantitative ecology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Bowhead whales were known to live up to 200 years, and a new study finds that southern right whales ...

Peter Corkeron is an adjunct senior research fellow at Griffith University's Centre for Planetary Health and Food Security.