Many people who have tried to lose weight by cutting calories are familiar with this frustrating reality: at some point, the body stops shedding pounds.

As wanderlust drives us toward increasingly off-the-beaten-path destinations, the number of passengers traveling on ...

Credit: NASA Langley Research Center The result will be a series of ... to land at a ridge near the 13-mile-wide (21 km) diameter Shackleton crater, but this was changed before launch to target ...

Many people who have tried to lose weight by cutting calories are familiar with this frustrating reality: at some point, the body stops shedding pounds. It senses the reduced calorie intake and ...

"It is a long way from insights in mouse experiments to bringing a drug to the market – but this is obviously the potential in our research ... and “ATLAS Center for Functional Genomics ...

Born on July 30, 1920, geologist and cartographer Tharp changed scientific thinking about what lay at the bottom of the ocean – not a featureless flat, but rugged and varied terrain.

Forgive me for starting with superlatives, but I have no choice. I’m not the first. In 1911, Roald Amundsen, the first explorer to reach the South Pole, wrote that the Queen Maud Range in ...

An astrophysicist has shared his thoughts on the afterlife and five clues he believes indicates that it exists ...