NASA sees two paths for saving its beleaguered plan to retrieve materials from the Red Planet but won’t choose between them ...

Findings reveal the memory-related brain processes that generate unwanted thoughts when people are sleep deprived ...

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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder symptoms worsen right before and during a period, a new study finds, and this could ...

Pluto and its largest moon Charon could have come together via a 10-hour “kiss-and-capture” encounter after a grazing ...

It seems like time slows in an emergency or in the heat of a sports match. Here are a few explanations for this altered ...

A common respiratory virus called human metapneumovirus, or HMPV, has been spreading in some countries in Asia, including ...

The sun has set—again—on U.S. net neutrality, the principle that all Internet traffic should be treated equally. Last week a ...

Blasts of Arctic air have brought frigid temperatures that are much colder than normal to parts of the U.S., but that “normal ...

Louisiana has reported the first U.S. fatality from avian influenza. Most of the country’s human cases have been mild ...

Computer science seemingly rides a curve of unstoppable progress. Mere decades took us from vacuum tubes to microchips, ...