Science

Epidurals during labor not only reduce patients' pain but may also lower the overall risk of severe complications during childbirth...

On Episode 114 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk about the launches of Boeing's Starliner...

An estimated 100 billion stars make up the Milky Way. Our home galaxy stretches 100,000 light-years across, an astounding size...

Cannabis exposure and psychosis have long been linked, even if we've struggled to pinpoint why and how often those psychotic...

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.Recent outbreaks of bird flu—in US dairy herds, poultry...

Lava flowing from Kīlauea, a shield volcano in HawaiiTomas Micek/Alamy EruptionMichael Crichton and James Patterson (Century (UK) Little, Brown (US)) If you...

Genetic studies of prehistoric burial sites in Germany reveal that two princely burials were closely related, suggesting inherited political power...

When we learn something new, our brain cells (neurons) communicate with each other through electrical and chemical signals. If the...

Name: Pacific hagfish (Eptatretus stoutii)Where it lives: Cold water seabeds around the world, usually below 300 feet (90 meters) deep What...

Off the coasts of southern British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and northern California lies a 600 mile-long strip where the Pacific...