With COVID in retreat (thanks to highly effective vaccines), the three infectious diseases causing public health officials ...

Once upon a time, the fishing town of Gansbaai on the South African coast was something of a mecca for shark-spotters – so heavily populated with the predators that nearby Dyer Island is considered ...

New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates life expectancy in the US is now higher than at ...

The large size (for an embryo) and hollowed-out middle of each fossil is indicative that each of these embryos once fed upon ...

On this day three years ago, we witnessed the nail-biting launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the largest and ...

Regular ScienceAlert readers will likely know how pervasive microplastics are – getting into human tissue, ancient rock, and ...

A quantum state of light has been successfully teleported through more than 30 kilometers (around 18 miles) of fiber optic ...

The mystery of dark matter could be solved in as little as 10 seconds. When the next nearby supernova goes off, any gamma-ray ...

The Starliner spacecraft approaches the International Space Station carrying astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams.

NASA's pioneering Parker Solar Probe made history Tuesday, flying closer to the Sun than any other spacecraft, with its heat ...

There's still so much we don't know about Alzheimer's disease, but the link between poor sleep and worsening disease is one ...

In 2022, University of Bristol scientists finally studied the skeleton and placed it within Squamata, the reptile order that ...