Though scientists predicted an active hurricane season, the swiftness of Beryl’s intensification is surprising.

Pupil size can decrease up to 0.4 millimeters per decade, hinting at why it can be increasingly harder for people to see in dim light as they age.

In a few years, you might be able to 3-D print right in the palm of your hand.

A nova occurs in the constellation Corona Borealis once every 80 years. Its bright light will be visible to the naked eye for up to a week.

A method called enhanced rock weathering shows promise at capturing carbon dioxide from the air. But verifying the carbon removal is a challenge.

A controversial idea drawing on findings from the animal kingdom suggests there’s more to human stature than genetics and nutrition.

Three public health experts weigh in on the U.S. surgeon general’s ground-breaking call to label shootings a health problem.

The last population of woolly mammoths did not go extinct 4,000 years ago from inbreeding, a new analysis shows.

Something strange is happening at Earth’s center. Decades of earthquake data show that Earth’s inner core has been rotating slower than its mantle and surface since around 2010, researchers ...

Well-preserved fossils from Morocco help paleontologists understand the weird way trilobites ate and perhaps why these iconic animals went extinct.

In her memoir, journalist Sadie Dingfelder draws on her own experiences to highlight the astonishing diversity of people’s inner lives.

Years of hunching over, chewing pens and gripping brushes left the skeletons of Egyptian scribes with telltale marks of arthritis and other damage.