Berenike was an isolated, windswept outpost. It linked the Roman Empire to the trade routes of India, Arabia, and East Africa ...

Cutting off reproduction — from birth control to castration — consistently adds years to life across species, even humans.

Regular, alternating layers in Gale Crater may have been deposited as the result of tides raised by a moon at least 18 times ...

Previous methods of studying fish sounds often involved divers interfering in the fishes’ habitats, or researchers recording ...

Off the coast of British Columbia, researchers have reported something that looks a lot like teamwork between two predators ...

Life loves rivers. Here on Earth, large drainage basins cover nearly half of the land surface. On Mars, they cover only about ...

Bananas are packed with PPO. This enzyme is the reason an apple turns brown when you slice it and leave it out. That browning ...

A new study from King’s College London has found that theobromine, a naturally occurring compound in cocoa, is linked to ...

Argo floats are free-floating robotic oceanographic instruments. As they drift, they rise and fall through the ocean to ...

“Chlorhexidine is widely used as a gold standard mouthwash but is associated with side effects and concerns over ...

Under a microscope, the mosquito’s proboscis looks like a tiny, precision tool. Thin, flexible, and sharp, it slips through ...

“There’s an entire ecosystem of things and services that the smart home can deliver once you have a rich map of the home that ...