Scientists have finally sniffed out the molecules behind marijuana’s skunky aroma. The heady bouquet that wafts off of fresh weed is actually a cocktail of hundreds of fragrant compounds. The most ...

As public health officials around the world monitor dozens of former passengers and crewmembers of the MV Hondius for signs ...

British chef Mike Keen will ski across Greenland eating only fermented seal. Researchers will study how the Inuit diet shapes ...

A Biography lifts the curtain on the private life of Charles Darwin, one of science’s most controversial pioneers.

A study of 50 crab species in Japan traces the iconic sideways walk to a single ancestor, suggesting the trait drove the ...

Tenets of quantum mechanics and special relativity, among other theoretical ideas, lead inexorably to string theory.

A 59,000-year-old Neandertal molar unearthed in Siberia was drilled with a stone tool – the earliest evidence of primitive ...

A new study shows learning to fly in virtual reality with virtual wings can reshape the brain, making it treat wings more ...

Technologies, including chatbots, promise to make life easier. But removing the friction, or effort involved in thinking, has ...

DNA damage from inflammation outpaces the cells’ ability to self-repair. The finding, in human brain cells and mice, could ...

Water droplets on soap films orbited and merged like colliding galaxies, a technique that could help scientists study the ...

Around one in 500 women don’t have a functioning womb, needed to carry a pregnancy. This condition, called absolute uterine ...