Learn more about the health benefits of fermented foods like sauerkraut, which may give your gut a protective boost.
Learn about the chemicals in mattresses that pose several health risks in children, and find out what can be done to keep children's bedrooms safe.
Fresh insights into the gut’s immune system point to promising allergy treatment options.
Learn how astronomers found the invisible ionized gas that forms puffy halos surrounding galaxies.
Learn more about how people perceive AI avatars on social media and how they could impact science communication.
Learn more about how a geoarchaeological discovery from 26,000 years ago is rewriting the history of fire.
Learn more about the big differences between the two most common types of cutting boards, and how both need to be kept scrupulously clean.
Learn about the optical rotatum, a newfound structure of light that exhibits a spiral pattern linked with various parts of nature.
Although a bracket fungus proved to be the least palatable, it is not poisonous. This conclusion could make scientists rethink the relationship between taste and toxicity.
The tracks show that two types of ankylosauruses co-existed at a time and place where they were once thought to be extinct.
Learn more about the research project that’s helping experts analyze the nanoplastics in the human body.
Discover how today’s cats might trace their roots back to cult rituals in ancient Egypt.
Dark oxygen was first discovered in 2015, but what is it? Learn how a deep-sea discovery could rewrite our understanding of how life on Earth evolved.
What are some of the largest extraterrestrial impacts to effect Earth? Learn what we’ve seen in history, and what is important to know today.
Learn more about the courtship songs of male fiddler crabs, which communicate important information about their size and their fitness as mates.
Learn how getting a good night’s sleep may be the key to enhanced and longer-lasting memories.
Learn why a black hole is becoming active and why experts still can't explain the source of its regular, periodic pattern of X-ray energy flashes.
Learn more about the upcoming Lyrid meteor shower and how you can prepare for this stunning cosmic show.
Machines have never been able to pass as humans in Turing's famous test of intelligence. That has finally changed.
Even though the virus was first discovered in laboratory monkeys in 1958, the original source came from a squirrel.