Science

Certain immune cells backstab their cellular coworkers during allergic reactions. Mast cells, the security patrols of the immune system, can…

An ancient ritual compound has come to light in the deepest, darkest part of a cave located in what’s now…

It might seem like magic. Type a request into ChatGPT, click a button and — presto! — here’s a five-paragraph…

If you’re one of the many adults who hate needles, you may be in luck. Scientists have taken inspiration from…

From monitoring Mercury to launching a new adventure to an icy moon of Jupiter, spacecraft and astronauts made great strides…

Following a public outcry, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield announced December 5 it had walked back plans that would have…

Notre Dame is back. And so are its acoustics. The Paris cathedral, which burned dramatically in a fire in 2019,…

BOSTON — For the first time, astronomers have detected an astrosphere around a star like the sun. This bubble of…

Over and over, the numbers tell the same story: 2024 was Earth’s hottest year on record, knocking the previous record…

Pablo Guerrero has been visiting cacti in the Atacama Desert his whole life, first on family trips to the Chilean…

Courtship dazzle in spiders can lose some zing in uncertain climates. Males in places with hard-to-predict rain and temperatures devolve…

A pair of spacecraft just launched to create hundreds of artificial solar eclipses in orbit. The European Space Agency mission,…