Astronomers have spotted a colossal explosion coming from a pair of merging neutron stars lurking within the remnants of an ancient galaxy pileup. The unexpected...
Sheldon Ekirch is used to being disappointed by her health insurance company. That’s why Ekirch, 31, of Henrico, Virginia, was stunned when she learned Anthem...
Archaeologists in Ukraine have discovered red lumps of cinnabar — a mineral form of the highly toxic chemical mercury sulfide — in a 1,900-year-old double...
Judging by more than 16,400 comments recently posted on a federal government website, you’d think there was a groundswell of older Americans demanding that federal...
Deep Sankar Dasgupta with daughter Deepanwita Dasgupta, when she was 3 years old. Deepanwita was later diagnosed with subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, or SSPE, a rare...
Astronomers think they’ve glimpsed one of the rarest sights in space: two planets smashing into each other around a distant star. The collision appears to...
Blackwater lakes and rivers in the Congo Basin are releasing ancient carbon into the atmosphere, a new study shows. Previously, scientists thought this carbon was...