NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is back to studying the universe, even as the aging spacecraft continues to lose altitude and…

MIT researchers have engineered bacteria to behave like transistors, making it possible to build living “circuit boards” that can be printed…

A major trial found that implantable cardioverter-defibrillators may benefit some patients younger than 70 with mild-to-moderate heart dysfunction and cardiac scarring.…

Cluster headache causes extreme pain, but its origins remain unclear. New research links the disorder to genetics, inflammation, and tobacco smoke…

Depression in later life may be an early warning from the brain, appearing years before Alzheimer’s begins to affect memory and…

A new theoretical approach helps connect quantum physics with classical thermodynamics by clarifying what counts as heat and useful work in…

Physicists around the world remain deeply divided on key mysteries of the universe, from dark matter to quantum gravity. The standard…

An analysis of 75 meteorite falls identified seven distinct processes that occur as space rocks melt, break apart, and slow down…