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Analysis of six mummies from ancient Egypt challenges the idea that the bows and daggers buried with some royal women were merely ceremonial.

Astronomers found a helium atmosphere around a rocky exoplanet -- a good sign for the search for life outside the solar system.

A new generation of therapies aims to intervene at a recently discovered gap between the disease's molecular march and its neurological consequences.

A Maya calendar formula bears the name Sak Tahn Waax, the first known Classic Maya mathematician-astronomer directly credited for such work.

The brine-formed meteorite that crashed into a New Jersey roof in 2024 could teach us about how life first arrived on Earth.

In sci-fi, AI can navigate the unknowns and -- ideally -- keep human travelers safe. But it's not intelligent enough to do that yet.

Clinical trial results show an experimental drug lowered tau levels in the brain and slowed some memory loss, but the data came with a surprise twist.

Atmospheric rivers bring heavy rain and floods, but if they don't come around, it could mean drought. A new global map reveals little-known pathways.

The Euclid space telescope discovery could help researchers understand how black holes grew so massive so quickly in the early universe.

Researchers exploring the origins of left-right dominance in the brain found no innately better motor skills on either side.