Learn more about how whales die and how their bodies can provide nutrients to surrounding marine life for up to a century.
Learn more about Ozempic Breath, why GLP-1s may be causing bad breath, and what this side effect could mean.
Learn how poison control calls involving GLP-1 medications surged after the FDA approved semaglutide for weight management.
Learn how ancient DNA linked elite Scythian relatives buried up to 87 miles apart and showed that Iron Age social status may have passed through family lines.
Learn how ancient DNA shows that children in medieval Sweden often shared graves with adults of the same sex rather than close biological relatives.
Learn how brightening clouds by spraying sea salt particles into the atmosphere may be able to lessen the climate impacts of a super El Niño.
Learn how the metabolisms of ancient ocean animals revealed why some species survived the Great Dying while others vanished.
Discover the top stories from July 3 to July 10, 2026, including proposed FDA changes for testosterone therapy and a new photo of the rare quasi-moon.
Learn about the formation of the grains within many meteorites, emerging from collisions of planetary bodies in the early Solar System.
Learn how new ocean floor formed in real time as earthquakes, sinking crust, and fresh lava reshaped the Southeast Indian Ridge.
The latest report examines global disparities in cancer care, identifies preventable risk factors, and calls for greater political commitment to improve outcomes.
No person blind from birth has ever been diagnosed with schizophrenia. Learn what this tell us about psychosis — and about how the mind works.
Learn how the latest IUCN Red List update links deep-sea mining, diamond projects, and invasive predators to extinction risks.
Learn more about the gray fox, why its population may be declining in the Midwest, and how citizen scientists can help monitor it.
Learn how a recent typhoon-caused flood in southern China unleashed hundreds of venomous snakes onto unsuspecting residential areas, with one death already reported.
Learn more about Legionnaires' disease and what the source of the current outbreak in New York City may be.
Learn about apoB, a cholesterol test that has proven to be a better indicator of heart attack and stroke risk than traditional “bad cholesterol” screening.
Learn how fish and amphibians have regions of vertebrae that may act like necks, challenging an common anatomical assumption.
Learn how the Parker Solar Probe detected charged dust that may help explain why the Sun’s corona gets so hot.
Learn how an MIT physicist’s proposed detector could help verify whether satellites are secretly carrying nuclear material in space.