Rumored to have killed the Roman emperor Augustus, nightshade's berries are notoriously deadly. Tomatoes belong to the same ...

A tank of the purest water, buried under kilometers of rock in Ontario, Canada, flashed as a barely detectable particle ...

Two shinbones provide the first evidence of carcharodontosaurs ("shark-toothed lizards") in Australia. A third shinbone ...

If we manage to reach the climate target set by the Paris Agreement, we could be living in a world that is, on average, 2 ...

If a star explodes in space and no one is around to see it, does it wreak a change on terrestrial evolution? Yes, maybe – if ...

Researchers at Microsoft have announced the creation of the first "topological qubits" in a device that stores information in ...

The toxic bite of a Gila monster can kill a human, but a specific ingredient in the cocktail of the lizard's venom is the ...

The chance that an asteroid capable of wiping out a city will hit Earth in eight years has been cut in half to around 1.5 percent, according to new calculations from NASA.

In recent years, a growing number of scientific studies have backed an alarming hypothesis: Alzheimer's disease isn't just a ...

Driving flashy cars and pumping iron are obvious ways that men try to outdo sexual rivals, but it turns out there's a far more subtle, biological method too.

Wildlife rangers will Wednesday begin shooting 90 dolphins stranded on a remote Australian beach, saying the stressed ...

You might want to think twice about setting the mood with a scented wax melt (or at least open a window at the same time): a ...