Dark matter is a mysterious substance which makes up roughly 85% of the matter in the universe. But physicists have yet to ...

For decades, scientists have been counting annual growth rings—similar to tree rings—inside fossilized leg bones of ...

A substance poisonous to humans — hydrogen cyanide — may have helped create the seeds of life on Earth. At cold temperatures, ...

A recent study of more than 2,000 early-career adults found that young people whose parents were still very closely involved ...

Almost half of our attention during face-to-face conversation focuses on lip motion. Yet, robots still struggle to move their ...

Huntington’s disease (HD) has long been impossible to cure, but new research is finally giving fresh hope. HD is a ...

Spontaneous remission happens more often than you might think. But that's still super rare. So understanding how cancer goes ...

Dr. Rowan Martindale, a paleoecologist and geobiologist at the University of Texas at Austin, was walking through the Dadès ...

The mucosal surfaces that line the body are embedded with defensive molecules that help keep microbes from causing ...

Researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and Universit´e Paris-Saclay have challenged a decades-old dark matter ...

A new study led by researchers at ETH Zurich and the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI in collaboration with African partners shows ...

While we often think of brains as some kind of triumph over brawn, it turns out that those two things might not be mutually ...