Deep within the brain, the ventral tegmental area does more than signal when we re rewarded it forecasts exactly when we ll be rewarded. This discovery came from an elegant collaboration between ...

Acetaminophen may be doing more than just dulling pain in your brain it could be stopping it before it even starts. Scientists at Hebrew University have discovered that a metabolite of the drug, AM404 ...

A violent solar eruption on May 31 launched a coronal mass ejection (CME) hurtling toward Earth, triggering a rare G4-level geomagnetic storm alert. Captured in real-time by U.S. Naval Research ...

Physicists at the University of Oxford have set a new global benchmark for the accuracy of controlling a single quantum bit, ...

Some volcanoes erupt with little to no warning, posing serious risks to nearby communities and air traffic. A study of Alaska ...

A prehistoric digestive time capsule has been unearthed in Australia: plant fossils found inside a sauropod dinosaur offer ...

Creatine is gaining recognition far beyond its roots in athletic performance. Once seen as a gym-only supplement, it's now ...

Neanderthals may have trekked thousands of miles across Eurasia much faster than we ever imagined. New computer simulations ...

After millions of years of evolutionary isolation, Madagascar developed an unparalleled array of wildlife, and recent ...

Bumblebee queens don t work nonstop. UC Riverside scientists discovered that queens take strategic reproductive breaks early ...

Planets may begin forming much earlier than scientists once believed during the final stages of a star s birth, not afterward ...

A team of international astronomers has uncovered what may be a gas giant planet forming around a distant young star. Using ...