Sometimes, years of painstaking excavation work are required to uncover the artifacts of the past – and sometimes, as with a recent earthquake in Mexico City, much of the hard digging work...

If there's a man in the Moon, as the old beliefs go, he's a pretty venerable one. Earth's lunar companion is thought to have formed not long after the planet itself, some...

The Universe is flooded with billions of chemicals, each a tiny pinprick of potential. And we've only identified 1 percent of them.Scientists believe undiscovered chemical compounds could help remove greenhouse gases, or...

Everyone likes a cool infographic, right? Does that statement hold even if the infographic points out a gap in our knowledge that could kill millions of people? Because that's what a cool-looking...

The role of the gut microbiome in causing Alzheimer's disease has finally been confirmed.Using gut microbiota transplants, an international team of researchers has shown memory impairments in humans with Alzheimer's can be...

How will our Sun look after it dies? Scientists have made predictions about what the final days of our Solar System will look like, and when it will happen. And we humans...

For the first time, artificial intelligence (AI) has searched for, detected, confirmed, classified, and announced a supernova discovery without any human intervention.An international team of scientists developed a new AI tool called...

At least 10% of people infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID, have symptoms that last more than four weeks after the infection.With more than 770 million infections to date, this...