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The Perseverance rover picked up audio evidence of electric discharges in the red planet's atmosphere.

Scholars have long debated how the massive stone figures of Rapa Nui got to where they stand today. A new study offers one possible explanation.

The email sent to atom bomb officials by Brandon Williams highlights the managerial challenge faced by the former one-term congressman.

The president's energy strategy is projected to generate more pollution, but so far production has not risen significantly and price drops have been modest, analysts say.

The Trump administration said that had the new prices been in effect last year, Medicare would have saved $12 billion, which would have reduced its spending on those drugs by 44 percent.

Males of two species of pheasants seem to trade attractiveness for the ability to get a good look at predators.

You won't be drinking it any time soon, but the aquatic mammal's milk is much more chemically complex than that of other mammals, including humans.

Scientists are learning how the brain knows what's happening throughout the body, and how that process might go awry in some psychiatric disorders.

The studies were a significant setback for the optimistic view that semaglutide and other GLP-1 drugs could help prevent a number of brain diseases.

She traveled through her long life at her own pace.