A genomic analysis of dozens of ancient Korean skeletons revealed a special "sacrificial caste" of people. When you purchase ...

Perry Samson was helping students conduct field experiments on supercell storms in Kansas in 2008 when one suddenly turned ...

Scientists discovered that making a very small change to female mice's DNA caused them to develop male reproductive organs.

NASA is gearing up to send astronauts back to the lunar environment for the first time in nearly 55 years. We've broken the ...

The "8-real" coin ("real de a ocho" in Spanish and the original pirate "piece of eight") was minted out of silver in the 16th ...

It's a running joke that a cure for type 1 diabetes is only five years away and has been for 50 years, but new stem cell trials and immune drugs hint that we're closer than ever to a functional cure ...

Astronomers studied 1.3 million galaxies and 8,000 X-ray-spewing supermassive black holes to find out why these gravitational ...

Amid drought and heat waves, April's national wildfire forecast shows that nearly the entire Western U.S. will face an ...

CERN scientists transported antimatter by truck for the first time, enabling ultraprecise studies that could reveal why ...

Once described by a 16th-century anatomist as the "shameful member," the clitoris has historically been ignored in research ...

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