The female sex hormone estrogen, along with progesterone, appears to underlie a fundamental difference in how males and ...

Nitisinone, a drug that is already used to treat two genetic diseases, could be repurposed to control the spread of malaria, ...

The sounding rockets released vapor tracers and pressure sensors at different altitudes across central and northern Alaska ...

As quantum computers gain ascendancy, the cryptographic algorithms we use to keep data secure What will replace them?

The colorful swirls and stripes that characterize China's Rainbow Mountains would have remained hidden without the epic ...

Leave your tripod at home with these image-stabilized binoculars for shake-free observations: Spy wildlife, spot planes and ...

A sudden stratospheric warming event reversed the winds that make up the northern polar vortex on March 9. A new animation ...

A roughly 100-year-old western Santa Cruz Galápagos tortoise has become a mom for the first time after reproducing with a ...

SpaceX's Starship has been awarded a NASA contract that will allow it to be considered for future missions. However, recent explosive tests have shown the supersized spacecraft is still far from ...

"Twins! She has another baby," Judith Pardo-Pérez, a paleontologist at the University of Magallanes in Chile who first ...

A new view of the Helix Nebula reveals a dying white dwarf star at the nebula's center. This star's violent eating habits ...

A man in his early 20s received a transplant of his own sperm-producing stem cells, which had been frozen since his childhood.