Now, though, they’re showing up about 1,000 miles south in Ecuador. “Historically, observing female Eastern Pacific ...

It’s been more than 40 years since the core meltdown of the Chornobyl nuclear reactor in what’s now Ukraine. Yet, its ...

According to a team of botanists from Tel Aviv University who uncovered this odd phenomenon, the secret is in the way the plants receive information from light. Your light receptors are located on the ...

It seems like every other day a new report comes out linking another gene variant to Alzheimer’s disease. “Despite CASS4 being an Alzheimer’s risk gene, really nothing is known about what this gene ...

Of course, not all loneliness is the same. The researchers distinguished between the students who experienced emotional ...

It’s a real blessing that coffee is mostly good for us. This unique cocktail of bioactive compounds is an extremely popular beverage, and its health benefits range from mood-boosting to reducing ...

“Eat less to live longer” might be a good rule of thumb, but it’s horrible in practice. While animals living in laboratories may enjoy longer lives on calorie-restricted diets, humans living in the ...

When a whale dies and sinks to the bottom of the ocean, its carcass becomes a banquet for smaller marine organisms, supplying food for decades. It’s a perfect example of the circle of life—and also a ...

If you’re someone who likes to read the ingredients on food labels, lecithin may be familiar to you. Usually derived from soy or eggs, it’s a fatty substance that’s commonly used as an emulsifying ...

Voyage 1 is holding on for dear life. The spacecraft recently went inexplicably incommunicado after a carefully planned software update rerouted power to prolong its 49-year-old mission. Thankfully, ...