Science News

At the height of his career, the pioneering electrical engineer Nikola Tesla became obsessed with an idea. He theorized that electricity could be transmitted wirelessly through the air at long distances--either via a ser...

The Congo's Mount Nyiragongo erupted Saturday night (May 22), sending thousands of people fleeing across the border into Rwanda and filling the skies with orange-red smoke.

Researchers facilitated the extinction of long-term traumatic memories in mice by enhancing activity in the nucleus reuniens.

Functional connectivity was reduced within and between several brain networks in children raised in disadvantaged neighborhoods. Researchers say a positive home and school environment can mitigate some of the effects.

A park ranger wandering through a petrified forest in California has unearthed a trove of prehistoric fossils, including a stunningly preserved mastodon skull and the remains of a monster salmon.

It's overwhelmingly genes, but DNA alone can't make you tall.

(UK Research and Innovation) Researchers will investigate the adoption of technologies at scale that remove CO2 from the atmosphere. These include management of peatlands for carbon accumulation, rock dust spreading on f...

(The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)) Researchers have identified the genetic and molecular mechanisms within cells that make the chemotherapy drug decitabine--used to treat patients with myelo...

(Weizmann Institute of Science) A natural food supplement reduces anxiety in mice, according to a new Weizmann Institute of Science study. The plant-derived substance, beta-sitosterol, was found to produce this effect bo...