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Spaceflight doesn’t just change your perspective — it shifts the actual position of your brain inside your skull, a new study reports.

Many of us know about the famed “overview effect,” which describes how a trip to the final frontier changes…

Researchers suggest that evolution may speed up dramatically during certain periods, challenging a long-held theory and helping explain a puzzling 30-million-year gap between genetic estimates and the fossil record.

This shift in thinking…

Scientists may have finally cracked a decades-old mystery about the Moon’s uneven surface. A new analysis of dust collected from the lunar far side shows strong chemical evidence of a violent impact that could have reshaped the Moon from…

Could a star have its own heartbeat? It sounds more like poetry than physics, but in the case of a red giant named R Leonis, the answer is a resounding, if slightly erratic, yes.

For over two centuries, we have watched this star. R Leonis is a…

Fighting fire with fire? Try fighting venom with toxins. Botulinum toxin — possibly the deadliest chemical compound yet known in nature — may help suppress the most destructive effects of snake venom. 

The preliminary findings,…

In a rare cross-continental collaboration, physicists from the United States and Japan have joined efforts to study neutrinos, the ghost-like particles that pass through everything, including us, by the trillions every second. By merging data…

The secret to preventing tooth decay may have been hiding in your mouth all along. Increasing levels of an amino acid in saliva can turn bacterial biofilms from damaging to protective, a clinical study has found.

Sugar doesn’t directly harm…

70 Percent of Cancer Patients Now Survive at Least Five Years, Study Finds

When the 47th solar panel exploded, Henrik Eskilsson began to fear he’d signed on with a madman.

In his SUV, he and Anders Olsson were accelerating across Sweden’s Lunda Airfield, towing a trailer fitted with a steel mast that suspended the…