A velvet ant bite like “hot oil from the deep fryer” delivers an array of peptides that inflicts pain on insects and mammals alike.

Pluto and Charon’s meet-cute may have started with a kiss. New computer simulations of the dwarf planet and its largest moon suggest that the pair got together in a “kiss-and-capture” collision, where ...

Living tissue from the memory centers of people’s brains reveals sparse nerve cell connections that provide strong, reliable signaling between cells.

The JUNO experiment, which will study the ways of the electrically neutral subatomic particles, will be the largest of its kind.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe skimmed the sun on Christmas Eve and lived to tell the tale. The heat-hardened spacecraft made its closest solar flyby yet at 6:53 a.m. EST on December 24. It came within 6.1 ...

Even just a few minutes of vigorous movement per day lowers the risk of serious cardiovascular problems, like heart attack and heart failure, in women.

Thanks to decades of conservation to restore private grasslands, numbers of the threatened insect are on the rise in the Loess Canyons.

A variant of PCSK9, a gene involved in raising cholesterol, may spur metastasis. An approved antibody might stop it.

Real-time data from Axial Seamount off the Oregon coast is providing researchers with a good eruption forecasting test.

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The dogs’ names are Mars, Moon and Pluto, and you might say their cancer-sniffing skills are out of this world. An experimental screening method that paired the dogs with artificial intelligence ...