Researchers have identified a period of sluggish magnetic field flipping for planet Earth, some 40 million years ago – ...

A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass ...

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 ...

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

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) – NASA took another crack at fueling its giant Moon rocket Thursday after leaks halted the initial ...

According to a pre-proof paper, hair samples from patients with Parkinson's disease showed significantly lower levels of iron and copper, along with higher levels of manganese and arsenic. The authors ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...