Cosmological data suggest unexpected masses for neutrinos, including the possibility of zero or negative mass.

A timeline of 485 million years of Earth’s surface temperatures shows ancient greenhouse conditions were hotter than scientists thought.

Black garden ants made tweaks to entrances, tunnels and chambers that may help prevent diseases from spreading.

When the virus that causes mpox jumped onto the international stage in 2022, countries around the world, including the United States, turned to vaccines targeting the closely related smallpox virus to ...

Animals including mammals usually protect their brains from infiltrating microbes that can cause disease. But some fish seem to do just fine.

Unusual tusks on preserved skulls of dicynodonts influenced the look of a mythical beast painted by Southern Africa’s San people, a researcher suspects.

Scientists have measured the strange quantum phenomenon of entanglement in top quarks, the heaviest fundamental subatomic particles known. It’s the first detection of entanglement between pairs of ...

The two plasma fountains, spanning 23 million light-years, could shape cosmic structures far beyond their home galaxy.

An analysis of tissue samples from nearly 1,200 older adults found that the more insertions individuals had, the younger they died.

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Flybys of primordial black holes may occur once a decade. Tweaks to the orbits of planets and GPS satellites could give away their presence.