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A hematologist researching a condition called hematohidrosis says it may be...
Credit: Canadian Medical Association JournalA bizarre medical mystery has been making the rounds this week on news sites and social media concerning an Italian woman who literally sweats blood. The...
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Tiny fossils no larger than the thickness of a human fingernail could...
Credit: Yale UniversityTransitional moments are often hard to pinpoint in evolutionary history. Because changes to species can occur gradually over long periods of time, it is difficult to know...
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The speedy dinosaur Sinosauropteryx used its color patterning, including a...
Credit: Robert NichollsSince the taxon Dinosauria was formally named in 1842, dinosaurs have mostly been depicted as drab-hued beasts. New fossils and high-tech methods for analyzing ancient pigments,...
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The mystery of why the universe exists has deepened as an ultra-precise...
Credit: NASA/JPL-CaltechAccording to the standard model of particle physics, the Big Bang should have produced matter and antimatter in equal quantities. By that logic, the universe should have...
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Developing a supply of oxygen on the Red Planet would help sustain a human...
Credit: NASA/JPL-CaltechIf Mars may have been habitable billions of years ago, it certainly isn’t now — not to humans, at least. But developing a supply of oxygen on the Red Planet would go some...
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Researchers are cataloging a dizzying number of different cell types from...
Credit: Smith Collection/Gado/Getty ImagesThere are 86 billion neurons in the human brain and no two of them are exactly alike. If doctors and drugmakers ever hope to develop cures for neurological...
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Stanford researchers found that marijuana users have sex 20 percent more...
Credit: Christopher Furlong/Getty ImagesWeed smokers are often stereotyped as being lethargic, unmotivated, and more likely to be Netflix and chilling on a Friday night than out on the dance floor....
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Researchers propose that the flood of synthetic chemicals, pesticides,...
Credit: Jeremy Woodhouse/Getty ImagesIn 1946, American consumer goods manufacturer Procter & Gamble rolled out a new product that, little known to its inventors at the time, would one day be...
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The object zoomed into our solar system from an extreme angle above the path...
Credit: NASA/JPL-CaltechAstronomers may have spotted the first comet or asteroid to visit from beyond the solar system. They’re now scurrying to aim telescopes at the object, provisionally called...
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A humanoid robot built by Hanson Robotics was given citizenship by Saudi...
Credit: studioEAST/Getty ImagesSaudi Arabia has granted citizenship to a woman — just not a real one. The oil-rich monarchy, where women’s rights are tightly curtailed, raised eyebrows this week by...
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In a new study, learners of Dutch who consumed about a pint of beer were...
Credit: PeopleImages via Getty ImagesDo you ever feel like your high school Spanish comes back to you more easily after a few drinks? A new study published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology shows...
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Genetic analysis of grains found at archeological sites shows that einkorn...
Credit: Wathiq Khuzaie/Getty ImagesHumankind was domesticating grains thousands of years earlier than previously thought, a discovery that calls into question whether people are unique compared to...
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Trillions of gallons of water flowed into the Gulf of Mexico following the...
Credit: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty ImagesCoral reefs in the Gulf of Mexico that suffered losses in 2016 may face a new threat from the freshwater runoff that followed Hurricane...
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Every breath a person takes inflicts minor damage to the lungs. Results from...
We know that microgravity hurts a lot of human systems — the eyes, the bones, the muscles, even the heart. But what does it do to the lungs? Can they function normally in microgravity, or is there a...
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Musk tweeted an image showing a prototype of a proposed hyperloop for...
Credit: Elon Musk/TwitterWhen Elon Musk tweets, people listen. Or read, or retweet, or flip out, depending. The tech mogul's latest Twitter dispatch shows a section of Musk's proposed underground...
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A UN agency reported that human activities and a strong El Niño event pushed...
Credit: Florian Gaertner/Photothek via Getty ImagesThe concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has hit a new high, the UN said Monday, warning that drastic action is needed to achieve...
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Researchers were able to identify subjects with suicidal ideation with 90...
Credit: Carnegie Mellon UniversityA team of US medical researchers has developed a new and decidedly high-tech system for potentially preventing suicide. Using advanced brain-imaging technology and...
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Neuropathology experts warn that finding proof of dementia or trauma in the...
Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesA Stanford University lab will receive a high-profile shipment this week: the preserved brain of Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock. Since law enforcement investigators...
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Researchers are trying to understand the extreme physics of black holes, and...
Credit: NASA/JPL-CaltechDid you know that black holes will occasionally shoot spectacular dual jets of hot gas out into intergalactic space? It's one of the ways we know that black holes really do...
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From the Great Plains to the Atlantic Ocean and North Africa, the geography...
Credit: J. Emilio Flores/Corbis via Getty ImagesYears of efforts to nurture renewable energy have borne fruit dramatically in recent years, with wind and solar farms sprouting worldwide. That growth...
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