The observatory telescope is embarking on a 10-year survey of the southern sky called the Legacy Survey of Space and Time ...

A French woman from the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe has been identified as the only known carrier of a new blood type, ...

Next month it will have been 80 years since the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were devastated by nuclear attacks.

Human sperm can swim through surprisingly viscous fluids with ease – and they seemingly defy Newton's third law of motion to ...

Summer is just getting started, and millions of people are under heat advisories as a major heat wave spreads across large ...

Scientists have developed a new technique for non-invasive brain imaging – and it involves shining light all the way through ...

Three newly-discovered species of deep sea 'spiders' farm methane-eating bacteria on their own bodies in a symbiosis quite ...

For centuries, humans have searched for ways to extend life. Alchemists never found the philosopher's stone, but scientists ...

Jumping spiders are all the rage among entomologists, but an entire genus living in New Zealand's South Island rocky alpine ...

From European arrival in 1492 and colonization in the 1500s, the introduction of disease, mostly smallpox, resulted in ...

It is true that sewing needles have not been definitively linked to Neanderthals. The first needles documented in Eurasia are ...

While it's very true that, as the great Ian Malcolm once said, "life finds a way," that way can sometimes veer quite far off ...