But new research has found the strongest candidate yet. The first author is Dayi (David) Li, a post-doctoral fellow in ...

A comet whizzing through the Solar System has astonished scientists by doing something they had never seen before.

A new Spinosaurus species has been unearthed from the Saharan desert, and its skull bears a magnificent crest never seen ...

Scientists at Microsoft Research in the United States have demonstrated a system called Silica for writing and reading information in ordinary pieces of glass, which can store two million books' worth ...

Scientists say they have drilled deeper than ever beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, peering back millions of years to ...

The poisonous death cap mushroom gives the entire fungi kingdom a bad rap, and it turns out they're not only spreading across continents, they're rapidly evolving, too.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) – NASA took another crack at fueling its giant Moon rocket Thursday after leaks halted the initial dress rehearsal and delayed the first lunar trip by astronauts in more than ...

A few blobs of lab-grown brain tissue have demonstrated a striking proof of concept: living neural circuits can be nudged toward solving a classic control problem through carefully structured feedback ...

An ungainly barrel of a shark cruising languidly over a barren seabed far too deep for the sun's rays to illuminate was an ...

Deer have the ability to see ultraviolet light, and a recent study shows they can also leave a glowing trail visible in those wavelengths, too.

Tiny air pollution particles may be doing more than harming our lungs. A new study links long-term exposure to PM 2.5 to a ...

One of the strongest of these depressions – where the gravity field is weaker – lies under Antarctica. Now, new models of how the so-called Antarctic Geoid Low evolved over time have shown that it's ...