Hypertension impairs blood vessels, neurons and white matter in the brain well before the condition causes a measurable rise ...

In the 1960s, Frank Sinatra’s song Fly Me to the Moon became closely associated with the Apollo missions. The optimistic ...

LHAASO has uncovered that micro-quasars, black holes feeding on companion stars, are powerful PeV particle accelerators.

Tensor operations are the kind of arithmetic that form the backbone of nearly all modern technologies, especially artificial ...

Counties in Pennsylvania that contained or were near cultivated cropland had significantly higher melanoma rates compared to ...

Imagine, it’s 2034, and a rock the size of a mountain, far off in our solar system is on a direct impact course for Earth.

Serotonin is often described as the happiness chemical because of its well-known role in regulating mood. However, recent ...

Physics is this close to understanding the entire universe. And what lives in this gap? Many physicists think it’s the ...

Every year, people around the world take an astonishing 3.8 trillion doses of medicine. Most of these medicines are swallowed ...

Most of us have little trouble working out how many millilitres are in 2.4 litres of water (it’s 2,400). But the same can’t ...

Yellowstone was massive. Roughly a thousand times larger than the eruption of Mt. St. Helens, the biggest eruption in the ...

A blood sample from—of all people—Adolf Hitler has been procured, authenticated, and sequenced. Apparently the sample came from Hitler’s bunker, in the room where he shot himself after Eva Braun had ...