From peptides and protein to sleep hygiene and vaccines, what actually helps you age well? Physician Eric Topol breaks down ...

Scientists are rethinking the universe’s deepest mysteries using numerical relativity, complex computer simulations of Einstein’s equations in extreme conditions. This method could help explore what ...

Former major league pitcher Daniel Serafini is serving a life sentence for a deadly plot against his wife’s parents — the murder of his father-in-law and the attempted murder of his mother-in-law in ...

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Dragonflies are among the most efficient hunters in the animal kingdom, with a success rate of around 95%, catching prey mid-air with incredible precision. Their nearly 360-degree vision allows them ...

Detailed imaging of a 250-million-year-old fossil has revealed the first proof that the ancestors of mammals laid eggs. The discovery answers a long-standing question about the reproductive biology of ...

This story is part of Sixth Tone’s 10-year anniversary series, Ten Years in Transition. SHANGHAI – Thirty meters underground on the outskirts of Shanghai, engineers are painstakingly fitting together ...

A new model suggests the universe could tear itself apart as expansion accelerates, with quantum effects potentially driving a Big Rip scenario. From Earth, the universe appears to be one vast, ...

It may seem like the universe is one enormous (if not infinite) unit, but new research suggests it could one day be torn apart. Researchers built a theoretical model of the cosmos to explore what ...

Seen from our blue marble as it spins among the hundreds of millions of star systems in the Milky Way, the universe around us looks like it’s one big cohesive whole. Everything that came onto the ...