New maps of wind impacts beyond Helene’s ‘cone of uncertainty’ track highlight how a hurricane’s power extends far inland.

In the book ‘Night Magic,’ Leigh Ann Henion writes of encounters with salamanders, bats, glowworms and other life-forms nurtured by darkness.

Scientists are problem solvers. They devise ways to tap new resources for building electric vehicles and to track stealth movements of environmental contaminants. Scientists are also detectives. They ...

A long-standing idea of why lithium ion batteries die focuses on lithium movement into the cathode. Instead, hydrogen may be to blame.

Some sea robins have taste buds on their six crablike legs that help the fish ferret out prey buried in sand as they walk.

Burying wood can store carbon for thousands of years, according to an analysis of an ancient log unearthed in Canada.

Brain scans revealed that teenagers with larger attention-driving networks were more likely to develop depression.

Cosmological data suggest unexpected masses for neutrinos, including the possibility of zero or negative mass.

A DNA analysis of the kefir cheese, first found about 20 years ago on 3,600-year-old mummies in China, confirms its age and pinpoints its origins.

A drug called bumetanide, which is used to treat edema in people, reduced this cellular swelling and resulting cell death in mice. Mice given the drug after an injury were better able to move their ...

A study of people with type 2 diabetes and opioid use disorder suggests that the key ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy shows promise against addiction.