The pitch is compelling: a single sample of blood could scan the body for dozens of different cancers at once, catching disease at a stage when it is easier to treat and more likely to be curable. For ...

The European Space Agency said it is investigating a fireball that streaked across the skies of Europe on the weekend before reportedly punching a football-sized hole in the roof of a German home.

Malaria killed about 610,000 people globally in 2024, with most deaths occurring in Africa, where young children remain the most vulnerable.

The discovery that bumblebee queens could shake it off and emerge unscathed after more than a week submerged in water stunned scientists back in 2024.

The Milky Way isn't just drifting through a giant void in space untethered, but is embedded in a sheet of dark matter like a blueberry in a pancake, new research suggests.

Whether it's enjoying a podcast, listening to music, or chatting on the phone, many of us spend hours a day using our headphones. One 2017 study of 4,185 Australians showed they used headphones on ...

Planets drifting unmoored through interstellar space, with no star to call home, may still have moons that are warm enough to support life, a new study has found. Through a combination of a thick ...

COVID vaccines saved millions of lives, but months into the rollout, a small number of people began developing dangerous blood clots in unusual parts of the body.

Leonardo da Vinci, the famous Italian polymath who painted the Mona Lisa, had a sophisticated geometric understanding far ahead of his time.

In an eerie new study, scientists have analyzed the brain activity of mice and used it to reconstruct videos of what the mice had seen.