Humans were letting bed bugs bite long before beds even existed. A comprehensive new genetic analysis reveals how these blood-sucking parasites tracked humans throughout history, booming alongside the ...

Typical amounts of solar particles hitting the Earth’s magnetosphere can be beautiful, but too much could be catastrophic. Credit: Pixabay. Geomagnetic storms occur when a large bubble of superheated ...

The drugs that transformed obesity care are now attracting attention in cancer research. At the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s annual meeting in Chicago, researchers presented three large ...

With trust in Big Tech corporations steadily on the decline, Google is about to make a pretty surprising move. The company is looking for approval to release millions of modified mosquitoes into the ...

Keep your eyes on the sky tonight: the sun is putting on a rare show, and it’s dragging the Northern Lights further south ...

An aerial view of the Pamir Mountains in Central Asia. Often called the “Roof of the World,” this vast range is defined by its glaciers, which act as a vital “water tower” sustaining millions in the ...

Regulating a misfiring heart has long required surgeons to permanently embed metal wires and batteries deep inside a patient’s chest. Now, researchers have discovered how to command the cardiac rhythm ...

Ötzi the Iceman has spent more than five millennia in the cold. But he may never have been entirely lifeless for all this time. A new study suggests that the famous Copper Age mummy, found melting out ...

Scientists have found planet and star formations somewhere that was the last place they thought it could occur.

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft flies above mountains near NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, on Tuesday, May 12. Credit: NASA/Jim Ross For seven decades, ...