Astronomers have discovered a planet with three suns, where an observer would experience either constant daylight or triple sunrises and sunsets depending on the seasons, which last longer than a human lifetime.
Sanofi Pasteur and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research are joining forces to develop an inoculation against the Zika virus, a mosquito-borne infection that can cause birth defects and other neurological deficits. Sanofi announced the research agreement Wednesday.
One of the uncomfortable facts of life is that some countries — and within the U.S., some states — are more violent than others. Figuring out what makes societies and communities more violent is a big-time quest for social scientists, since if you know what leads to killing, you'll have a better shot at defusing it. Drawing on a host of studies, a new paper (PDF) in Behavioral and Brain Sciences -- lead-authored by Paul A. M. Van Lange of Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam -- proposes a model for understanding violence with the only somewhat forced-sounding acronym CLASH, short for CLimate, Aggression, and Self-control in Humans.
Nearly everyone carries one version or another of the herpes virus. A recent study suggests that the new gene-editing technology known as CRISPR/Cas9 may be able to eliminate this ever-present virus -- or at least suppress it.
After spending a week in intensive care at a Los Angeles hospital for a severe throat infection, comedian Sarah Silverman says she's "insanely lucky to be alive."
Historians have long been fascinated with the behavior of Mary Todd Lincoln. Was this polarizing first lady mentally ill, or as a new study argues, did she instead suffer from a much more common ailment that will be familiar to fans of "Downton Abbey"?
NASA says it has received a signal from 540 million miles across the solar system, confirming its Juno spacecraft has successfully started orbiting Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system.
No one wants to serve spoiled food to their families. Conversely, consumers don't want to throw food away unnecessarily -- but we certainly do. The United States Department of Agriculture estimates Americans toss out the equivalent of US$162 billion in food (PDF) every year, at the retail and consumer levels. Plenty of that food is discarded while still safe to eat.
7-year-old Katie Eddington loves swimming, running, basketball and soccer. Her favorite animal is a horse. Her favorite flavor of ice cream is chocolate.
Researchers are studying sets of twins in Brazil to see why one has microcephaly and the other does not. The answer may lie in the babies' respective genes.
