Elana Glowatz

Scientists created a patch that embeds tiny needles into fat tissue, releasing anti-obesity medication and transforming fat into energy.

Scientists invented a new self-healing material that could be used to create smartphone screens and windshields.

Solange Knowles announced on Instagram that an autonomic disorder was preventing her from singing at Afropunk on New Year’s Eve. Here’s what that means.

Earthquakes can shake the planet’s surface when one tectonic plate is squeezed underneath another and can be linked to either volcanic eruptions or tsunamis.

Residents in a few states spotted a fireball flashing across the night sky on Boxing Day.

Scientists may have found a cause of postpartum depression in the stressed-out brains of pregnant mothers.

A dinosaur footprint lasted for 115 million years until someone smashed it with a hammer or a rock.

People say Baba Vanga, an alleged clairvoyant from Bulgaria, predicted big things for 2018.

Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk made a promise on Twitter that his company would soon make an electric pickup truck.

Astronomers at the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico took radar images of the large asteroid Phaethon as it passed close to Earth this month.

Some of Earth’s creatures are on the brink of extinction and might disappear in our lifetimes.

A NASA astronaut, the first to go on a spacewalk without a tether, died on Dec. 21.

Scientists are trying to figure out what drives the Yellowstone supervolcano, so they can better predict when it will next erupt.

Uranus changes color and brightness with the same rhythm as the sun’s 11-year solar cycle.

Scientists say they can add something to your DNA’s structure that will help them detect diseases much earlier.

Scientists say they have developed a new system for tracking pandas using their footprints, which are as unique as human fingerprints.

More than one million people, including many children, in Yemen have contracted the bacterial disease cholera in the last eight months as war rages in the Arabian Peninsula nation. Here are the signs of the illness.

A new satellite is going to scoot itself around in Earth’s orbit with power from what is essentially a cold cigarette lighter.

A fungal disease has been found in several snake species in the U.S. and Europe and it is potentially deadly for many of them.

Alien life might be able to survive the harsh environment of a pulsar solar system if it lives on a large planet with a thick atmosphere.

A 2,000-year-old Jewish tomb door with a menorah on it was also used to hold up a Muslim mosque and in a staircase in a Christian-run sugar factory.

NASA’s next New Frontiers mission might see if Saturn’s moon Titan is habitable or it might collect samples from a famous comet.

Science makes it possible for embryos to be frozen for decades before being grown into babies.

The churning surface of a giant alien star is weird-looking in this photo, but the sun will look like that too one day.

A new gene therapy targets a mutation that causes blindness and could restore vision in patients with a rare inherited condition.

Humans have pushed many animals to extinction, and there could be more going soon.

A bear from 3.5 million years ago ate too many sweet berries for its own good. We can relate.

When two black holes collide in space, they create distortions in space-time called gravitational waves that ripple outward and can be detected from far away.

Mars may have formed into a planet in the asteroid belt that separates the inner and outer solar system, which would explain why it’s so weird.