A tiny 518-million-year-old sea creature has revealed the earliest known evidence of the structures that eventually became ...

Photons traveling through a cloud of atoms can emerge so early that they appear to have spent a negative amount of time ...

Weight loss is not simply a test of willpower. The human brain evolved to protect body fat during times of scarcity, and it ...

Taiwan’s steep, remote mountains have sheltered extraordinary forests containing hundreds of giant Taiwania firs. After years ...

A new 3D printing technique can produce exceptionally hard tungsten carbide cobalt while using less of its expensive raw ...

Chemotherapy-surviving ovarian cancer cells may release fructose to help neighboring tumor cells loosen, escape, and spread.

A specially engineered chewing gum reduced HPV by up to 93% and nearly eliminated two bacteria linked to head and neck cancer. The treatment preserved beneficial mouth bacteria, raising hopes for a ...

Scientists have successfully generated electricity with a hydrogen turbine that produces its own pressure through detonation waves instead of relying on a mechanical compressor. The breakthrough could ...

Scientists have identified a molecular switch that may help explain why aging makes the brain more vulnerable to diseases ...

Thawing Arctic permafrost is releasing ancient carbon into the ocean, raising fears that microbes could turn it into ...

When atomic nuclei smash together at nearly the speed of light, they create the hottest fluid in the universe, but scientists may have overlooked one of its most important forces. New simulations ...

Low arginine levels may allow cancer cells and viruses to slip past the immune system by reducing production of a crucial ...