Scientists knew that sliding along surfaces gives water drops a charge. Those droplets can damage bridges, cars and more over ...

A hexagon darkens the clouds over Saturn’s north pole. Now, astronomers have found a similarly shaped atmospheric wave at the ...

The biggest fibromyalgia genetics study yet zeroed in on 26 genetic risk factors for the pain disorder, including one in the ...

The universe’s first rocky planets may have gotten their start astonishingly early — perhaps only 100 million years after the ...

Migraine prevention drugs are more targeted than ever before, and new guidelines may help doctors predict which will work for ...

California blackworms can squeeze through narrow channels faster than they can wriggle across wide ones, a finding that may ...

Many people struggle to sleep enough at night. Surprisingly, science cannot say if adding in a nap to sleep in two blocks is ...

Vitamin K lowers the risk of bleeding, including in a circumcision. That procedure may explain a disparity in which infants ...

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An experiment made famous by Galileo has been shrunk down to the atomic level and shipped off to space. To show that objects of different masses fall at the same rate, the 17th century Italian ...