Researchers have discovered that eight different psychiatric conditions share a common genetic basis.
A study published in early 2025 pinpointed specific variants among those shared genes, showing how they behave during brain development.
The…

Researchers have discovered that eight different psychiatric conditions share a common genetic basis.
A study published in early 2025 pinpointed specific variants among those shared genes, showing how they behave during brain development.
The…

Archaeologists in Mexico have discovered a 1,400-year-old tomb from the Zapotec culture that features well-preserved details, including a sculpture of a wide-eyed owl with a man in its beak, multicolored murals and calendrical…

“Super-Earth” exoplanets may have an in-built way to protect themselves from harmful radiation, giving any potential life on such worlds a better chance of surviving, according to recent research.
Super-Earths, worlds larger than Earth but…

The U.K. has officially lost its measles elimination status, meaning the highly infectious disease has been circulating continuously in the region for at least a year.
Within the past decade, the U.K. has gained, lost and regained its measles…

Not all fat is created equal — while one type of fat in the body raises blood pressure, another helps keep it in check, a study in mice suggests.
In people, excess body fat has long been tied to high blood pressure, or hypertension, and a…

Hydrogen cyanide, or HCN, is typically associated with poison capsules and spy thrillers, where it acts swiftly by cutting off oxygen to cells. In concentrated form, it can kill a human within minutes. Yet, as recent findings indicate, this…

NEW YORK (AP) — Two artifacts found at a lake shore in Greece are the oldest wooden tools to be uncovered so far and date back 430,000 years.
One is a spindly stick about 2 1/2 feet (80 centimeters) long…

Experts have created an app that uses artificial intelligence to identify dinosaurs from the footprints left behind after they stomped across the land tens of millions of years ago.
“When we find a dinosaur footprint, we try to do the Cinderella…

In a few days, a rare annular solar eclipse will set the skies over Antarctica alight with a dramatic “ring of fire”. The spectacle will only be fully visible from a narrow, uninhabited stretch of the continent, with a handful of…