Previously predicted by theoretical models, we now have the first experimental observation of plastic Ice VII.

Just two servings of yogurt a week may protect the bowels from some specific types of cancer, according to a new long-term ...

French scientists on Tuesday announced that they had reached a "crucial milestone" in the long road towards nuclear fusion by ...

The supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy may not be as voracious as the gas-gobbling monsters that ...

There's a window of time in our lives we've all passed through yet still know so little about: early gestation.

Scientists are designing a new type of drug that mimics the physiological benefits of breathing in thin 'mountain air'.

The signal itself came from a television. That's not the puzzling part. The puzzling part is that the Murchison Widefield Array that made the detection in the remote Australian desert back in 2013 is ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

The humble mushroom is a fungi with plenty of potential. Previous research has shown mushrooms can reduce depression risk, ...