Vaccination is still important to ward off the worst of the coronavirus. Three experts discuss the concerns with restricting access.

ADHD is officially a disorder of deficits in attention, behavior and focus. But patients point out upsides, like curiosity. Research is now catching up.

In Tales of Militant Chemistry, Alice Lovejoy traces how film giants Kodak and Agfa helped produce weapons of war during the 20th century.

Southeast Asian groups mummified bodies over smoky fires before burying them as early as 12,000 years ago, long before Egyptians began making mummies.

At just 25, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin applied quantum physics to a treasure trove of astronomical observations to show that stars are mostly hydrogen and helium.

Experiments reveal that when slabs of salty ice are strained, electricity is generated, though practical uses are still a long way off.

Made out of a fluorescent protein, the qubit is just 3 nanometers in diameter, scientists report August 20 in Nature. By hitting the protein with laser light, tweaking it with microwaves and observing ...

Octopuses are ambidextrous, a new study finds, but they favor their front arms for investigating surroundings and their back arms for locomotion.

Countering the idea of large-scale rewiring, women whose hands were removed retained durable brain activity patterns linked to their missing fingers.

A spacecraft slowly descends to the surface of Mars. Once arid and lifeless, the Red Planet is now lush and green. As a city comes into view, passengers see people strolling along busy streets, ...

From salamanders to monkeys, many species get more violent at warmer temperatures — a trend that may shape their social structures as the world warms.

NASA’s InSight lander listened to Marsquakes for four years. The tremors revealed that Mars may have a solid inner core.