An international team of researchers has uncovered a genetic secret within barley seeds that could help protect the global food supply from the unpredictable effects of climate change. The study, ...

Xi Zhang, a professor of Earth and planetary science at UC Santa Cruz, has discovered that an exoplanet classed as a “super-Jupiter” has substantial differences from our solar system’s largest planet ...

Lost cities, missing tombs, and unexplained occurrences. History still holds unanswered questions for these seven events.

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Marijuana is prescribed to help ease chronic pain and control nausea in cancer patients, but legal red tape has made more ...

The Trump administration announced last week that it is dismantling the leading climate research center in the United States.

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AI writing tools are supercharging scientific productivity, with researchers posting up to 50% more papers after adopting ...

The search for life on Earth is speeding up, not slowing down. Scientists are now identifying more than 16,000 new species ...

A new study published on December 23, 2025, in Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, looks at how age may affect recovery for people with spinal cord injuries.

COVID-19, and more rarely the mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine, can lead to inflammation of heart tissue in some individuals. A ...

From a small island off the coast of Panama to the farthest reaches of space, the Smithsonian advanced our knowledge of the ...