The devastation of Pompeii by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE is one of the best-recorded disasters in human history.

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Medications like Ozempic and Wegovy are famous for their weight loss benefits, but some scientists want to know more about how these drugs impact muscle loss.

The mysterious black balls that washed up on Sydney's beaches in mid-October were likely lumps of "fatberg" containing traces ...

It seems like Roald Dahl may have been onto something after all: if you hurt a plant, it screams. Well, sort of. Not in the same way you or I might scream. Rather, they emit popping or clicking noises ...

Scientists on Wednesday said that they have successfully stirred a strange matter called a "supersolid" – which is both rigid and fluid – for the first time, providing direct proof of the dual nature ...

If you've ever thought to yourself, "Gee I sure would like to see some vampire bats on treadmills," then do we have the science for you. That's exactly what a team of scientists has done, and it's not ...

For millennia, humans had one obvious and reliable source of light – the Sun – and we knew the Sun was essential for our survival. Early religions were also often tied up with healing. Sick people ...

The amount of sugar in the diets of babies and toddlers could predict their chances of developing type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure later in life. Researchers from the University of Southern ...

The experiment showed the jellyfish could revert to a youthful form when stressed only by starvation, but this was far less ...

In August 2017, humanity observed a wonder. For the first time, we got to see two neutron stars colliding, an event observed ...

This is not surprising if FRB progenitors are magnetars. Neutron stars are the collapsed cores of massive stars that have ...