Black holes are more than just massive objects that swallow everything around them—they're also one of the universe's biggest energy sources

Researchers in Australia say their latest project scanned billions of stars and 144 known exoplanets for signs of alien broadcasts.

Researchers discovered that your kitchen sponge is a better incubator for diverse bacterial communities than a laboratory Petri dish.

A new study finds an interesting link between how attractive someone is and the strength of their immune system.

As human exploration of space reaches new horizons, understanding the effects of spaceflight on human brains is crucial.

Fat tissue plays an important role in human health. However, our fat tissue loses function as we age, which can lead to type 2 diabetes.

This Feb. 22, the world hits an unprecedented milestone. It’s the date itself: 2/22/22. And this so-called “Twosday” falls on a Tuesday.

More than half of unemployed American men in their 30s have a history of being arrested or convicted of a crime, a new study finds.

Researchers demonstrated how dendrites help neurons perform computations on information that comes in from other parts of the brain.

If it seems like mosquitoes love you more than other people, they very well might as around 20% of people are particularly irresistible.

While a remedy for this severe disease has remained elusive, a recent study, if proven applicable, may be a possible cure.

If the collective activity of life—known as the biosphere—can change the world, could the collective activity of cognition also change it?

The time a person spends on different smartphone apps is enough to identify them from a larger group in more than one in three cases.

Researchers discovered that 10% of the oil floating on the Gulf after the Deepwater Horizon disaster was dissolved into seawater by sunlight

The most critical genes that cause coronary heart disease and trigger heart attacks have been identified in a major new study.

Hair follicles assist in the development of a pimple, but new research suggests the skin cells outside of hair follicles play a larger role.

The galaxy, dubbed Alcyoneus, is a large radio galaxy that spans 16.3 million light-years or roughly 150x the span of the Milky Way galaxy.

Dogs can recognize their owner by voice alone, and they make use of some of the same voice properties as humans do.

Asteroid 16 Psyche, which NASA intends to visit with a spacecraft in 2026, may be less heavy metal and more hard rock than formerly thought.

A team of German astronomers have discovered a strange new type of star covered in the by-product of helium burning.