A velvet ant bite like “hot oil from the deep fryer” delivers an array of peptides that inflicts pain on insects and mammals alike.

Pluto and Charon’s meet-cute may have started with a kiss. New computer simulations of the dwarf planet and its largest moon suggest that the pair got together in a “kiss-and-capture” collision, where ...

Living tissue from the memory centers of people’s brains reveals sparse nerve cell connections that provide strong, reliable signaling between cells.

The JUNO experiment, which will study the ways of the electrically neutral subatomic particles, will be the largest of its kind.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe skimmed the sun on Christmas Eve and lived to tell the tale. The heat-hardened spacecraft made its closest solar flyby yet at 6:53 a.m. EST on December 24. It came within 6.1 ...

Thanks to decades of conservation to restore private grasslands, numbers of the threatened insect are on the rise in the Loess Canyons.

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A gene involved in setting cholesterol levels may also determine whether breast cancer spreads to other parts of the body. For years, researchers have been examining normal tissue and breast ...

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Maya Ajmera, President & CEO of Society for Science & the Public and Publisher of Science News, sat down to chat with Gideon Yu, co-owner and former President of the San Francisco 49ers, Executive ...

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