Geologic mapping, the report emphasizes, is a scientific process. Every map is the result of hypothesis testing, data ...

Ultimately, the widespread occurrence of SSSB in mammals, especially primates, strongly suggests that such behaviors are natural and adaptive. Normalizing same-sex behavior as a part of this spectrum ...

A new study led by Melissa Stadt and Anita T. Layton at the University of Waterloo reveals that potassium doesn’t just counterbalance salt’s harmful effects. It may rewire the body’s entire blood ...

A new modeling study estimates that radiation from CT scans performed in the United States in 2023 could eventually cause more than 100,000 cases of cancer. That’s nearly 1 in every 20 new diagnoses — ...

At the western edge of the Mediterranean basin, a narrow land bridge once sealed off the Atlantic. We now call it the Gibraltar strait but 5.33 million years ago, it used to be a land bridge ...

For decades, scientists have known that ordinary matter — everything made of atoms — accounts for just 15% of the universe’s matter. The rest is mysterious dark matter. But even that modest slice didn ...