Close to the summit of an underwater mountain west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a jagged landscape of towers rises from the gloom.

At what point do "you" end and the outside world begins? It might feel like a weird question with an obvious answer, but your brain has to work surprisingly hard to judge that boundary.

We've known about the iconic Ring Nebula for nearly 250 years, but it's only now that astronomers have found a giant mystery ...

By the late 1990s, scientists realized that virus activity was likely shaping how carbon and nutrients cycled through ocean ...

Teeth that are unusually worn down can also be a sign of acid reflux. This causes stomach acid to seep into the mouth, which ...

Starfish (aka sea stars) are master climbers. These many-armed invertebrates traverse vertical, horizontal, and even upside-down surfaces: it seems no substrate is too rocky, slimy, sandy, or glassy.

Now, a study reveals this 'drift' in gut stem cells is fueled by inflammation and disrupted cell signaling, and it may help ...

In preparation for winter, the common shrew (Sorex araneus) shrinks its brain by 30 percent to conserve precious energy.

In early January, a giant sinkhole formed at an intersection in the West Oak Lane neighborhood of North Philadelphia after a ...

We know what will happen to the Sun and our Solar System because we can look outward into the galaxy and examine older ...

Fallen whale carcasses offer islands of nutrition within an otherwise sparse seafloor, and with help from bone-eating zombie ...

High blood sugar spikes after meals could be a contributing factor to Alzheimer's risk, according to a new study that gives ...