Learn more about how income inequality may increase the potential for political instability and may have led to the collapse of the Roman Empire and the Han Dynasty.

Swapping soda for black coffee could benefit your mental health. Learn more about a new study that contributes to a growing body of research that links sweetened drinks to poorer mental health outcomes.

Learn why it's so difficult to know what dinosaurs would have tasted like, and what some experts hypothesize.

Learn why finding no obvious biosignatures on 40 to 80 exoplanets doesn’t mean that life doesn’t exist outside Earth. It just provides a way to narrow the search.

Learn about the associations between brain injuries and political behavior, which reveal which brain regions regulate our interest in politics.

The U.S. measles outbreak is continuing to grow. Here’s more information on this virus and the best way to prevent it.

Learn why rising temperatures and carbon dioxide levels could make pollen-bearing plants bloom earlier and live longer.

Learn why that next ballpark hot dog actually has many health risks, including an increased risk of colorectal cancer.

Studying how the different sexes manage pain could lead to better treatments for pain conditions.

Learn how even though water is vital for life, it can be dangerous for babies under six months. Here’s what every parent should know.

Learn more about complex compositionality, an ability to combine words and calls that humans and bonobos apparently share.

Learn about the latest update on asteroid 2024 YR4, which now has a 3.8 percent chance to impact the Moon.

Learn why drastic drops in temperature sent European hunter-gathers in search of a warmer place to live.

Learn how a new study suggests that walkable neighborhoods drastically reduce one’s risk of developing cardiovascular disease.

First-of-its-kind study links pollution produced by wildfires to emergency mental health visits.

Learn more about alcohol's role in the mating behavior of fruit flies and how they avoid intoxication.

Learn how gravity and mass are pulling two stars into tighter, faster orbit around each other, with an explosive collision inevitable.

The method would help find a second life for the plastics that make up the bulk of thousands of turbine blades in the U.S. alone.

Learn more about how myelin springs back in the brain after a marathon and how these findings could help people with multiple sclerosis.

Hospitals are seeing an increase in Candida auris cases, putting more strain on healthcare systems to protect patients.

Learn how newly-discovered dinosaur footprints on the Isle of Skye helped researchers reconstruct Scotland’s Jurassic past.

Melting moon dust, found at the bottom of astronaut's shoes, would save on costly, heavy transport of solar cells in space.

And learn how whisky may signal the discovery of an extraterrestrial civilization (hic).

Discover intricate mechanisms in the primates’ throats that help them rapidly shift their pitch up and down.

The collection of Metoposaurid temnospondyl fossils unearthed in Wyoming tell an incomplete story.

Learn more about the songs of the stars, which tell of the transformation of our galaxy over time.

Learn about the worsening state of snowpack in the northern Rocky Mountains, which has been contaminated by mercury and other metals from nearby mines.

Learn more about the world's smallest pacemaker that’s implanted in a non-invasive way, which can help newborn children who need it.

Learn what part of the brain keeps track of food poisoning and why.

Understanding the differences between Neanderthal and modern human faces sheds light on our own evolution.

Animal studies could lead to blood tests that could guide doctors in better matching drugs to patients based on immune system biomarkers.

Learn more about the mammalian transition from arboreal to terrestrial life, which began millions of years before the arrival of the asteroid that devastated the dinosaurs.

Take a tour of the space volcanoes on other planets and moons across the Solar System, and find out how they differ from Earth's volcanoes.

Learn more about the ecosystem that’s remained under the ice for centuries.

Tools were once thought to have arisen out of Africa and Europe, then spread eastward. New findings challenge that assumption.

Learn how this common dietary practice could improve sex drive.

Learn more about Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, the woman who overcame adversity to discover the meaning of stars.

The task, which even conventional supercomputers can’t perform, could improve online security and make some processes, such as choosing a jury, truly fair.

Meet Plesiopterys wildi, the marine reptile that may have been endemic to its region and may hold the key to understanding plesiosaur evolution.

Scientists used AI to analyze millions of heartbeats, link them to potential arrythmia, then build an algorithm based on how the heart talks to the brain about its irregularities.