Tests show pasteurized dairy with H5N1 remnants did not cause illness in mice, supporting safety of milk during outbreaks.

An experimental gene therapy slowed Huntington’s by up to 75 percent in a small clinical trial. While not a cure, it may give patients longer lives.

The map, spanning 4,000 light-years from the sun in all directions, combines a chart of space dust with the effects of a rare type of young, hot star.

Scientists and journalists share a core belief in questioning, observing and verifying to reach the truth. Science News ...

Despite millions of years of evolutionary separation and a geographical divide, a blue jay and green jay mated in Texas. This bird is the result.

Digital reconstruction of a partially crushed skull suggests new insight into Homo sapiens’ evolutionary relationship to Denisovans and Neandertals.

The effectiveness of camouflage or warning colors for insect defense depends on conditions such as light levels and how many predators are around.

Emotional events help solidify memories. The findings may one day help students study or trauma survivors recover.

Scientists have filmed nanoscale ice crystals adapting to trapped air bubbles without losing structural integrity.

The methane gas may constitute a rarefied atmosphere, or it may come from erupting plumes on Makemake’s surface.

Seismic and land deformation data show that Santorini and Kolumbo draw from the same magma source, complicating eruption forecasts.

Calcium, a mineral involved in wound healing, can strengthen the attachment between microbe and skin and make infections hard to shake.