Jersey City ranks among the happiest cities in the United States, while neighboring Newark falls lower, according to a new study by the personal finance website WalletHub. The analysis placed Jersey ...

Scientists studying crops irrigated with treated wastewater discovered that trace pharmaceuticals often collect in plant leaves. Tomatoes, carrots, and lettuce absorbed medications such as ...

A newly published political science study finds that the process of validating vote-by-mail ballots in the United States remains subjective.

Nivedita Pujari, a postdoctoral researcher at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, studies how herpes simplex virus uses ...

Researchers have identified a potential mechanism that explains how turbulent plasma can produce the vast, ordered magnetic fields observed across the universe Cosmic magnetic fields are everywhere, ...

Mars didn’t always look like the barren world we see today. Over billions of years, the Sun’s solar wind stripped away much of its atmosphere, helping transform it from a warmer, wetter planet into a ...

Lithium was supposed to be soft. The metal bends easily in bulk form, stretches before it breaks, and deforms the way you might expect a pliable material to behave. Scientists who studied the tiny ...

Research published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology found that people who can laugh at themselves are almost impossible not to like. Some people are just naturally easy to like.

In a clinical study involving 23 pregnant women in their second and third trimesters, the app estimated fetal heart rate with ...

A new analysis of the medical data of over 100 million people found a marked link between using recreation drugs and stroke ...

Inside the growing scientific quest to understand what creatures with the extraordinary ability to defy the ravages of time can teach us about making human aging better.

King penguins are adapting to climate change in a way that seems to help them breed successfully, which is unusual.