In this interview, immunologist Ruslan Medzhitov explains how fundamental inflammation is, why it often goes wrong, and whether there's anything we can do about chronic inflammation. | Continue reading
Inflammation can be both a superhero and a villain, depending on the context. Rather than eliminating it completely, new treatments are trying to redirect it. | Continue reading
People often experience fevers when they get sick. But what is going on in your body as your temperature spikes? | Continue reading
Astrophotographer Petr Horálek shot this image of the Milky Way dazzling above strange geological formations in the desert close to the ALMA radio telescope array in Chile. | Continue reading
We worked out how many trips each of the solar system's eight planets has taken around the sun over the past 4.6 billion years. | Continue reading
Scientists have offered a new explanation for why COVID-19 vaccines that contained adenoviruses carried a rare-but-serious risk of blood clotting. | Continue reading
Cannibalism is more common in the animal kingdom than you might think. | Continue reading
Clouded leopards can rotate their ankle joints by almost 180 degrees and they kill by biting the back of their prey's neck with their huge teeth. | Continue reading
A house in Australia harbored more than 400 moths and butterflies, and hundreds of other species, including ones never documented before. | Continue reading
The island forged in fire off the coast of Japan in October this year is still growing, as seen in a Copernicus Sentinel-2 image caught on Nov. 27. | Continue reading
Only 1 in 10,000 people can recognize musical notes on the spot. Why? | Continue reading
Halley's Comet is predicted to reach its farthest point from the sun on Dec. 9, beginning a 38-year journey toward Earth that culminates in 2061. | Continue reading
A fifth century Mongolian saddle is one of the earliest examples of evidence of modern horse riding. | Continue reading
The FDA approved two new therapies for sickle-cell disease, including the world's first-ever approved CRISPR therapy. | Continue reading
The announcement comes after the FDA became aware of more than 40 cases of "DRESS syndrome" linked to the seizure medications levetiracetam and clobazam. | Continue reading
Ancient workers used a blend of organic materials such as mosses and lichen to build the architectural marvel and help protect it from erosion. | Continue reading
Paleontologists have found two pairs of hind legs from a small, bird-like dinosaur in the stomach of a juvenile Gorgosaurus unearthed in Canada. It is the first time that any food remains have been discovered within a tyrannosaur. | Continue reading
Doctors have described a potential new syndrome seen in infants whose mothers used nonprescription fentanyl during pregnancy. | Continue reading
Newborns' brains may look relatively smaller than those of other primate babies, but it's not because they're "underdeveloped" by comparison. | Continue reading
Five axes found in Poland date to 3,500 years ago, and may have been used as either tools to chop wood or for sacrificial purposes. | Continue reading
NASA astronaut Frank Rubio spent hours looking for a tomato that floated away on the International Space Station. Eight months later, his colleagues finally found it. | Continue reading
Agitation, anxiety and depression seen in people with Alzheimer's may be driven by brain inflammation, in addition to abnormal proteins. | Continue reading
As many as 120 'shooting stars' per hour will be visible during the moonless peak of the Geminid meteor shower on Dec. 13 and 14. | Continue reading
Save almost $100 on the LEGO Ideas Insect Collection at Amazon. | Continue reading
Save almost 50% on this nifty Ideapad laptop. | Continue reading
Archaeologists have discovered two temples, one buried atop the other, in the ancient megacity of Girsu in Iraq. One temple is linked to Hercules and Alexander the Great. | Continue reading
After the warmest autumn ever, researchers are confident 2023 will be the hottest year on record before it has even finished. | Continue reading
A seamount sitting on a subducting tectonic plate off the coast of Japan and plowing its way into Earth's mantle may be at the root of several magnitude 7 earthquakes in the past 40 years. | Continue reading
A new study re-examining old fossils collected by a Colombian priest more than 50 years ago has found they are actually rare hatchling turtles. | Continue reading
Current methods of tracking space junk in Earth's orbit only follow objects bigger than a softball. A new technique could trace the 99% of junk that's smaller. | Continue reading
Fresh water that trickled down into Earth's crust 6 million years ago became trapped thousands of feet beneath the Hyblaean Mountains in Sicily, forming an aquifer that has not budged since. | Continue reading
A new vaccine, so far tested only in mice, broadly activates the immune system against a wide array of bacteria and fungi. | Continue reading
The early galaxy AzTECC71 is so far away it keeps disappearing from telescope observations. A new study by the James Webb Space Telescope finally pins it down. | Continue reading
Experts explain what we know about preventing and treating long COVID, at this point. | Continue reading
Save 43% on this indoor bike with a comfortable seat, sturdy design, and small footprint to boost your cardio fitness at home. | Continue reading
Supervolcanoes are defined by their ability to produce supereruptions — explosions of more than 240 cubic miles of volcanic material. But scientists disagree on how useful the term is. | Continue reading
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) continues as scientists look to low-frequency radio waves that have long gone unexplored. | Continue reading
An early trial hints that psilocybin could be a safe and effective treatment for depressive episodes in bipolar II disorder and should be studied further. | Continue reading
Peering deep into 'The Brick,' a dark, chaotic gas cloud at the heart of the Milky Way, the James Webb Space Telescope uncovered secrets that could shake up theories of star formation. | Continue reading
Ancient baboon mummies show signs of poor diet and lack of sunlight during captivity. | Continue reading
Elephants appear to have evolved their long, grasping trunks as a result of climate change pressures on their ancestors millions of years ago. | Continue reading
Tiny biological robots can move on their own, assemble into 'superbots' and encourage nerve cells regrow. | Continue reading
While hunting for dark matter, astronomers accidentally discovered the first known stellar stream stretching between galaxies. The trail of stars is also the longest ever seen. | Continue reading
NASA and scientists from around the world are sending new science instruments, as well as a few stocking stuffers, to the moon on Dec. 24 in the debut launch of a new rocket. | Continue reading
Bears that are struggling to hibernate due to abnormally warm weather in Russia's Amur region are wandering around in a daze, having suppressed their metabolism in preparation for winter. | Continue reading
Betelgeuse, the most famous red supergiant star and one of the sky's brightest, will disappear for up to 12 seconds during an ultra-rare occultation by asteroid 319 Leona. | Continue reading
The James Webb Space Telescope's discovery of water and other molecules in the inner region of a hot protoplanetary disk suggests that rocky, Earth-like planets may be able to form in some very extreme environments. | Continue reading
A metal detectorist stumbled upon a rare gold coin while exploring the mountains in southern Norway. | Continue reading