The shattered star at the center was once a white dwarf, a stellar ember no larger than Earth, yet almost as heavy as the Sun ...

Nature’s least loved animals are dying fast. This could make the environment stinky and pathogens unstoppable.

To simulate menstrual fluid, the team used glycerol, a thick liquid similar in consistency to blood. In both pre-flight and ...

More than 4,500 years ago, at the dawn of Egypt’s pyramid age, a man was laid to rest in a ceramic pot. He was then sealed ...

Even in their natural state, some asperigimycins killed leukemia cells in lab tests. But the researchers went further. By ...

Underwater contact makes up most of orcas’ social life, yet scientists traditionally watch from boats and count surface cues: ...

Now, thanks to ancient DNA and a sculptor’s art, we can meet her again.

In one of Stanford’s labs, a roll of Scotch tape spins under a motorized roller. To the untrained eye, it’s an ordinary strip ...

A temple bigger than a city block was hiding in plain sight for over 1,000 years.

Orcas, also known as killer whales, are among the most intelligent and social of marine mammals. They live in tight-knit pods ...

A pool cleaner and a spongy polymer can turn used and discarded electronic items into a treasure trove of gold.

This geometric figure — first identified by dentist William Bonwill in 1864 — is formed by connecting the two points where ...