A doctor who has lived 36 years as a cancer patient explains why "How are you?" is hard to answer, and which words from a clinician help or harm.

New research reveals how genetic isolation, continued hunting, and shrinking grazing habitat combined to drive Scandinavia’s ...

Zircon crystals reveal that a meteor struck Oklahoma nearly 100 million years later than believed, around the time of a major mass extinction.

Worms with normal DNA inherited fertility problems for 15 generations, showing inheritance beyond DNA through tags on ...

In a small pilot, people in addiction treatment rated their craving lower after music therapy, and their brain recordings ...

A huge wave in the stratosphere can make week-two forecasts of winter cold in central Canada and the Midwest more reliable, a ...

A neutron star collision produced an unusual nine-minute X-ray glow, possibly powered by a newborn magnetar that kept releasing energy after the blast.

Antarctic ice loss is likely to continue through 2100 even with deep emissions cuts, but future emissions can still determine how much ice is lost.

Adults in their 60s who scored lowest on memory and speed tests had a higher stroke risk years later, but the link disappeared after 70.

Wild harlequin frogs in Panama mostly survive where weather is wrong for a deadly fungus, and a new map shows where captive ...

When a panther chameleon meets a rival, its rapid color change isn't a simple pigment trick. A complex biological process sits behind this transformation.

Threatened Yosemite toads face a hidden winter danger as deadly fungal infections surge while the animals hibernate ...