The pill version of Wegovy seems to work just as well as the injectable form, but there are some key differences between the two formulations, experts say.
An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was present in the Americas at least 3,000 years earlier than previously thought.
An exploding tree claim has gone viral as the U.S. brace for an Arctic blast that will send temperatures plunging, triggering a massive and long-lasting winter storm.
Scientists are developing a «sponge» that can soak up pain signals in the body before they reach the brain, potentially offering an alternative to painkillers.
Mars may have been a «blue planet» with an ocean the size of today's Arctic Ocean, a new study suggests.
IBM has released two new complex quantum processors alongside a new framework that would allow us to track the first demonstration of quantum advantage.
Scientists successfully sequence the RNA from woolly mammoths found in Siberia that lived up between 10,000 thousand and 50,000 years ago.
Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy has snapped a striking shot of a skydiving YouTuber perfectly aligned with the fiery surface of the sun. The unlikely image, dubbed «The Fall of Icarus,» required meticulous planning to pull off.
A man in New Jersey has died from a meat allergy that people can develop after being bitten by certain tick species.
When quantum computers become commonplace, current cryptographic systems will become obsolete. Scientists are racing to get ahead of the problem and keep our data secure.
Taftan volcano near the border of Pakistan has shown signs of unrest in recent years.
A faint radio «whisper» from ancient hydrogen reveals the universe was heating up long before it filled with starlight.
Greenhouse gas concentrations increased by a record amount in 2024 as more carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide became locked in Earth's atmosphere, a World Meteorological Organization report finds.
Comets Lemmon and SWAN will be at their brightest just as the annual Orionid meteor shower produced by Halley's Comet reaches its peak.
Researchers used a new technique called algorithmic fault tolerance (AFT) to cut the time and computational cost of quantum error correction by up to 100 times in simulations of neutral-atom architecture.
Using the James Webb Space Telescope's infrared camera, scientists have captured the gigantic jet blasting out of M87* in a new light.
The Celestron NexStar 8SE is now the cheapest we've seen it since January — and there's no guarantee it'll be discounted for Black Friday, either.
Following Jane Goodall's death, chimp experts explain how her early observations still influence our understanding of our ape cousins.
Archaeologists have discovered a mass grave of Roman soldiers hidden inside an ancient well in Croatia.
Researchers trace how different sleep stages may fine-tune what we remember, trading specifics for more general knowledge.
