The complex biology of ghrelin, the hunger hormone, has researchers wondering how its absence helps snakes last a long time with no food, if at all.

Now in its 70th year, the Greater New Orleans Science and Engineering Fair is gearing up for another round of STEM presentations. Over 300 middle- and high-school students will congregate at Tulane ...

In a quiet laboratory, a team of atmospheric scientists and engineers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory recently gathered around a workstation to watch as little ...

One would be hard-pressed to find a player with a more accomplished youth soccer career than Karlie Young (née Paschall).

A growing body of research shows that getting outside is good for mood and memory. Some therapists are bringing their ...

Hospital-based obstetric unit closures, which often lead to a loss of healthcare providers who can care for expectant mothers ...

The latest wellness trend and "sleep hack" involves switching off the bathroom light before stepping into the shower. In the dimness, the water feels louder, the day's visual clutter fades and the ...

Today, nearly everyone in America has become just as silly. People are “exactly like the pigeons,” says Peter Balsam, a ...

Lake Erie is home to “the most dramatic, damaging and deadly surges” in the region, said Jay Austin, a physicist at the Large Lakes Observatory in Duluth, Minn. The Buffalo area, at the lake’s eastern ...

Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences, which has produced a trio of modern-day dire wolves and the woolly mouse, seeks to bring back extinct species.

Most of the neon sign doesn’t light, graffiti covers the walls, and the place is no longer open for lunch. But the Republic ...

The Russian state has long been accused of using exotic poisons to murder its opponents - whether the nerve agent Novichok or radioactive plutonium isotopes. Could Alexei Navalny have been killed by ...