Even without reaching heat wave levels, sustained high temperatures may contribute to a litany of health issues.

A type of lichen was able to survive extreme UV radiation in the lab, suggesting that ozone protection might not be required for life on exoplanets.

Compact ruddy galaxies seen by the James Webb telescope confound astronomers. Having very little spin at birth may explain the galaxies’ small sizes.

The origin of red beans — also called adzuki — has been murky. A new study says Japan is where it all started.

Art and literature hint at past people’s psyches. Now computers can identify patterns in those cognitive fossils, but human expertise remains crucial.

If the new age of these Canadian rocks is solid, they would be the first and only ones known to have survived Earth’s earliest, tumultuous time.

In the sport, players take turns hitting a squishy ball off four walls, trying to return it before it bounces twice. But when a perfect “nick shot” is executed, the ball strikes a sweet spot between ...

An egg-shape trend found among birds shows up in miniature with very protective bug parents. Elongated eggs fit more compactly under mom.

Alix Morris’s new book, A Year with the Seals, explores humans’ complicated relationship with these controversial marine mammals.

Finding a Saturn-sized world around the young star TWA 7 could pave the way for the Webb space telescope’s direct observation of other exoplanets.

With genetic tweaks, E. coli turned 92 percent of broken-down plastic into acetaminophen, charting a path to upcycle plastic waste sustainably.

In a pair of papers submitted June 17 at arXiv.org, researchers generated conditions called “magic states,” crucial components of quantum computations. And those magic states were high-quality enough ...