The promise of learning to read significantly faster is intriguing. But true speed reading isn't supported by the science.

Whether your baby has a thick mop of hair or just a few strands, most of it will fall out before she's six months old.

A baby's ability to sweat and produce tears develop weeks after birth.

Researchers may have created the tiniest droplets in the universe, using a soupy mix of ultrahot particles that mimics conditions in the moments after the Big Bang.

Mysterious quantum stars that act like single, monster atoms could form surprisingly quickly.

Nitrogen fixation is a process that plants use to take nitrogen from the air and transform it into a usable form such as ammonia or nitrate.

You can thank the solar system's head-spinning early years for Earth's rotation.

No it's not a leaf or a long-lost kingdom of life. It's a funny, leaf-like animal.

About 3.22 billion years ago, ancient mats of microbes clung to pebbles in an ancient riverbed.

Parrondo's paradox takes losing odds and turns them into a win.

The echoes of colliding wormholes would look different than the signal from merging black holes.

The mysterious substance may not just interact with other matter through gravity.

Whistler waves are normally produced in the atmosphere by lightning. They could help protect nuclear fusion reactors from runaway electrons.

It's a trick question.

Physicists are looking for signs of new physics, but the new measurement showed no signs of it.

Wormholes could leave a signature smooshed shadow that future telescopes could detect.

One key ingredient for life may be less abundant in our galaxy than scientists thought.

Metal whiskers wreak havoc on electronics, but their origin has remained unknown.

After initial water escaped into space, the rest froze.

Tree-ring data sheds light on climate change's historic and modern impact.

Physicists at Caltech helped to develop the first machine able to weigh a single molecule.

A decade of research leads to a deeper understanding of how genes interact.