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While spider bites rarely affect people, some of them can sometimes result in really unusual symptoms.

We have only just moved into May and despite being seven months away from next summer in the southern hemisphere, climate researchers are seeing the beginnings of what could be the most powerful El Niño event since 1997...

A new oral antiviral drug may be a future tool in the global fight against measles, according to a new international study.

How do labs design the super foams that enable submarine exploration at the deepest depths?

While horror movies often portray humans who fear invaders from Mars, scientists are examining what can happen when microorganisms from Earth hitch a ride on a spacecraft to Mars.

Ron Garrison/Lexington Herald-Leader via Getty Images This month, thoroughbred horses will race down the one-mile-long Churchill Downs track in Louisville, Kentucky, for the 140th year. Although the Kentucky Derby is ste...

While the Internet of Things continues to grow, its adoption is progressing much more slowly than that of, say, smartphones. The trouble may go back to Steve Jobs's famous talking point: The Internet of Things lacks a co...

Although doctors recommend that parents place their babies to sleep on their backs, many U.S. parents do not seem to follow this advice, researchers say.

Crocodile tears, a stunning solar eclipse and magma at Mount St. Helens are just the beginning of our favorite images from this week in science.

Through astronomy, people in rural Tanzania are gaining a new perspective on the universe.

Icebergs tumbling into the ocean are the source of unusual "earthquakes" recorded at Alaskan glaciers.

The iron in red meat may raise your risk for heart disease, but iron in vegetables seems to have no ill effect, a new study says.

The "Gospel of Jesus's Wife," a papyrus written in Coptic and containing text that refers to Jesus being married, is looking more and more like it is not authentic, research is revealing.