SCIENCE

Just prepare yourself for some physics puns.

A peptide secreted by the frog’s skin kills the H1 variety of the flu virus.

The Chicxulub crater is providing new clues about how life may have begun on Earth about 4 billion years ago—and point us towards how and where we can look for life across the universe.

With enough funding, they will analyze—and then reinter—the remains of people buried between 1707 and 1859 in a Baptist cemetery—and mental_floss will be in the lab with them.

The planet resides in its star’s habitable zone, the slim "Goldilocks" orbit at which water can exist as a stable liquid.

We are only just beginning to find ways to explore the deepest trenches.

A new study models the brain interactions that could be behind the tics.

This phenomenon is not unique to academia, but can be seen across many major career fields, from finance to medicine.

The real-life story behind the hit movie doesn't end once the credits roll; for educators, there's now a free curriculum to use in the classroom that shines a light on the pioneering African-American women of NASA's space program.

There’s evidence to support both sponges and comb jellies' claim to the title, but the latest research, published in the new journal Nature Ecology and Evolution, lands hard in favor of Team Jelly.

New details on the breaking-edge mission to the Jovian moon.

Centuries-old tapestries, carpets, and taxidermied animals are at risk.