Snakes are highly modified lizards, with more than 4,000 living species today. The origin of snakes has long been one of ...

A legal fight over whether doctors can test a child for brain death before a diagnosis is made has reopened a broader debate ...

“All medicines require ongoing monitoring, and regulators rightly continue to assess emerging safety signals. Reports of deaths in people taking weight loss medicines should be interpreted with ...

The curious minds at What If explore what would happen if there were life after death.

Even as results from related research were published in the Nature journal, the outcome was never made public by the doctors ...

To be clear, the “Skynet” of the “Terminator” movies is not at hand.

In searches for past and present Martian life, some scientists say we’ve been too cautious to see what’s right in front of us ...

During a hospital resuscitation, a nurse removed an unconscious man’s dentures and placed them in a drawer of a crash cart. Days later, after the patient regained consciousness, he was told his teeth ...

One of those theories has to do with how the brain reacts and how people report experiences coming close to exiting Earth. People also commonly talk about white light and feelings of love or peace, or ...

Rudolph Marcus was perplexed. It was 1955 and Marcus, a 31-year-old associate professor of chemistry still in the early stages of his career, had found an elementary mistake in th ...

We might not have to go scorched Earth after all. Contrary to popular belief, the Earth might actually weather the fiery death of the sun that’s expected to engulf our neighbors, per a relieving study ...