With a tool often used in the study of dinosaur fossils, scientists uncovered new details in ornate tattoos on the skin of members of the Chancay culture of Peru.

The company, started by the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, reset its countdown clock repeatedly over a period of just over two hours before eventually postponing the test flight to another day.

Scientists have identified a gene that causes production of a substance in some citrus that interferes with many medications.

The W.N.Y.C. science program ?Radiolab? partnered with the International Astronomical Union to solicit nearly 3,000 submissions. The Roman goddess of doorways and transitions won out.

Charon is large in size relative to Pluto, and is locked in a tight orbit with the dwarf planet. A new simulation suggests how it ended up there.

It?s not causing panic! in the fossil record, but a 430-million-year-old mollusk discovery in Britain is a source of excitement for some scientists.

The Mars Sample Return effort was billions of dollars over budget and not expected to return to Earth with its samples until 2040.

Not in this universe, a new study concludes.

Never miss a rocket launch, meteor shower, eclipse or other event that?s out of this world.

Levels of PFAS in sewage sludge used as fertilizer can pose risks that sometimes exceed safety thresholds ?by several orders of magnitude,? the agency said.

Proving skeptics wrong, he shared a Nobel Prize in 2013 for using computers to better understand chemical reactions and biological processes.

By 2060, new dementia cases per year could double to one million because of the growing population of older Americans, a study predicts.

Despite the serious risks of drinking it, a growing movement ? including the potential health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ? claims it has benefits. Should we take them more seriously?

In its original form, the virus survives in just two countries. But a type linked to an oral vaccine used in other nations has already turned up in the West.

Outbreaks among the unvaccinated are a predictable consequence of falling immunization rates. But even vaccinated adults may be vulnerable to some illnesses.

On Monday night you may have a chance to witness the moon obscuring the Red Planet at its brightest, as well as a comet?s closest approach to the sun.

After developing chronic pain, I started looking into what scientists do ? and still don?t ? understand about the disease. Here is what I learned.

As many as two billion people suffer from it ? including me. Can science finally bring us relief?

He grew up playing with model construction sets. As an adult, he tinkered with molecules instead, creating nanomachines and winning a Nobel Prize.

Researchers see a growing health danger from the vast plumes of pollution spawned by wildfires like the ones devastating Los Angeles.

If New Glenn lifts off on Monday as planned, the Amazon founder?s rocket company will be on track to give Elon Musk?s SpaceX some genuine competition.

As astrotourism booms, the northern lights get a boost from digital photography.

It?s widely used because it can slow flames in ways that water can?t. But it also contains heavy metals and other harmful compounds.

Dr. Fenwick, a neuropsychiatrist, assembled anecdotes from more than 300 people in his book ?The Truth in the Light.? Here are some of them.

He was a neuropsychiatrist who was studying consciousness when a patient explained what had happened to him. He came to believe the phenomenon was real.

After staying flat for nearly two decades, electricity use is starting to rise again, and the boom in wind and solar power hasn?t kept pace.

The sensation of being detached from your surroundings may point to a hard-to-diagnose condition.

The results of a new federal analysis were drawn from studies conducted in other countries, where drinking water contains more fluoride than in the United States.

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