The blood vessels feeding your brain can sustain damage without an obvious warning. Scientists have now linked higher consumption of ultraprocessed foods to signs of that damage in middle-aged adults, ...

As social media says, microplastics are this generation's lead and asbestos: useful things that seemed hunky-dory – until they weren't. Plastics are ubiquitous because they're durable, versatile, and ...

A population of once-rare hybrid crabs has surged to record numbers, following a marine heatwave that hit the Bering Sea in 2018. This dramatic increase in hybrid crabs is not something marine ...

There's a profound worry underlying the fundamental physics of existence: The Universe may not be quite as stable as we'd ideally like it to be. Quantum field theory describes invisible quantum fields ...

A daily step count is a simple way to keep track of how much we move. It may also offer clues about our attention and decision-making skills. Researchers examined activity records and cognitive test ...

People with ADHD face more than issues with attention, focus, and impulses: It's a serious condition that may take years off a person's life. For the 5 percent of children and 2.5 percent of adults ...

Just when you thought it was safe to enter the benthic depths of the Indian Ocean, a new eldritch horror emerges from the darkness.

Materials in a superconducting state are of huge interest to scientists. That's because of rare properties – primarily the ability to conduct electricity with zero resistance, with nothing lost to ...

For all their promise, quantum computers have a hard time modeling the interactions between the two families of building blocks that underlie our Universe – can you imagine a chef that struggles to ...

Body fat can bring health benefits as well as health problems, depending on where it is and how much of it there is.

But anyone who has slept with a dog knows they can be a total nuisance. They can take over your mattress, snore loudly in your ear, and drool on your pillow. Throughout the night, they repeatedly ...

Our early Earth was a heavy metal album cover: a molten ball covered in a global lava ocean, spewing lethal gases while being pelted by the flaming space-rocks of our Solar System's violently chaotic ...