New research suggests the brain may lose its ability to adjust to change before the first obvious memory symptoms appear. What…

Mediterranean soil chemistry may have caused archaeologists to overidentify olive oil in ancient pottery. For archaeologists, a trace of olive oil…

North Pacific winter storm paths are moving toward the North Pole faster than scientists expected. In Alaska, glaciers are losing about…

A long drought on Flores may have helped drive Homo floresiensis and its prey away from their cave refuge. For more…

Scientists discovered that a key brain signal may have been pointing researchers in the wrong direction, potentially changing how movement disorders…

A study shows that the devastating disease can arise even when infectious prions are absent. For decades, mad cow disease has…

Equal calories do not mean equal brain signals, as scientists found that fructose and glucose influence hunger through surprisingly different pathways.…

After an exceptionally poor snow season, one of Arizona’s largest reservoirs shrank to less than 1% full, wiping out nearly all…