While investigating the dentist drill's anxiety-inducing high-pitched whine, researchers revealed why it's worse for children than adults.

Researchers used face masks and an airplane air filter to find out what microbes are floating around.

Studying Elysia chlorotica could be consequential for human industries, but the creatures have proven incredibly enigmatic.

We apparently have more in common with some shorebirds than we previously thought.

Ant pupae might be less selfish than most humans.

NASA's Perseverance rover found rocks on Mars that on Earth usually form in tropical environments.

Researchers in Spain investigated what kind of noise shells used by Neolithic societies made.

New research shows anacondas have stayed the same massive size for 12 million years.

Researchers took a look at how earthquakes change what's available on the underground microbial menu.

The Ushbati figurines were meant to work for the dead.

A staff member at a Buddhist temple heard a knock while explaining to a relative how to get a death certificate.

A Vanderbilt physicist has both good and bad news.

Archaeologists recently explored a long-lost Silk Road city at the bottom of a lake, uncovering a trove of artifacts and a medieval cemetery.