A jaw-dropping 515-mile lightning bolt lit up the skies from Texas to Kansas City, smashing previous records and reshaping ...

At the edge of two exotic materials, scientists have discovered a new state of matter called a "quantum liquid crystal" that ...

Ape behavior just got a name upgrade — “scrumping” — and it might help explain why humans can handle alcohol so well.

Scientists have discovered the oldest direct evidence of betel nut chewing in Southeast Asia by analyzing 4,000-year-old ...

Women who drank heavily, even though they strongly wished to avoid pregnancy, were 50% more likely to become pregnant than ...

A Penn State-led research team has unraveled the long-standing mystery of how lightning begins inside thunderclouds. Their findings offer the first quantitative, physics-based explanation for ...

Using a powerful mathematical tool, scientists have unveiled the intricate "ringing" of black holes, unlocking patterns missed for decades and laying the groundwork for sharper gravitational wave ...

A tiny 3 kg detector has made a huge leap in neutrino science by detecting rare CEvNS interactions at a Swiss reactor. This elusive effect, long predicted and hard to measure, was captured with ...

Stepping into a virtual forest or waterfall scene through VR could be the future of pain management. A new study shows that ...

In an exciting breakthrough, researchers have identified cancer drugs that might reverse the effects of Alzheimer's disease ...

A new global study reveals a striking post-pandemic surge in gut-brain disorders like IBS and functional dyspepsia.

GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic are transforming weight loss, but a new UVA study warns they're not improving a critical measure of ...