Category: 7. Science

Researchers may have discovered a new way to diagnose and treat major depression at the earliest stage of the condition, giving patients the best opportunity for recovery.

University of Queensland researchers, in collaboration with…

Even in the most hostile places on Earth, new research shows that organisms are able to survive and even thrive.

A University of Cologne-led team published its findings on nematodes from the Atacama Desert, the world’s driest non-polar desert, in

A long-standing debate about the evolutionary origin of the world’s most widely cultivated “magic mushroom” – Psilocybe cubensis – may now have been settled by scientists from southern Africa and the United States.

In a paper…

The newly-identified gas cloud, dubbed G2t, follows nearly the same orbit as two known clouds, suggesting they were all expelled by a pair of massive stars near the core of our Milky Way Galaxy.

It’s no secret that prolonged periods spent in microgravity takes a toll on the human body. This includes muscle atrophy, bone density loss, and changes to the cardiovascular, endocrine, and nervous systems. But for female astronauts,…

Jupiter’s moons can have surprising effects on the world’s displays of auroral lights by “stomping down” on the planet’s gigantic magnetic environment.

These surprising effects, detected in observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (

A defunct NASA satellite that launched 14 years ago to study Earth’s radiation belts is expected to crash back to the planet on Tuesday.

The roughly 1,323-pound spacecraft, known as the Van Allen Probe A, is projected to plunge through the…