This glittering spaceship Earth and the Solar System it inhabits are not fixed in space, but whirl, slowly and grandly, as ...

A huge 11,000-carat ruby has been discovered in Myanmar, state media reported Friday, one of the largest ever found in the ...

Up until the 1970s or so, the human brain was assumed to be 'hardwired' like a computer, its neural networks remaining fixed ...

Cities and towns are usually 1–3°C hotter than the surrounding countryside, because asphalt, concrete and brick absorb heat ...

Supplementing the guts of older mice with poop from younger ones reveals the key role microbes play in intestinal stem cell ...

The motion of galaxy clusters in the distant Universe has just yielded the largest-scale test yet of the laws of gravity.

Without visual input generating a constant stream of ambiguous or unpredictable signals, the brain may settle into more ...

While human beings have some impressive self-healing capabilities, we're nowhere near the level of salamanders or axolotls ...

For children with autism spectrum disorder and with an intellectual disability, the options for improving communication and ...

"Natural blood clots can be slow to form and mechanically fragile, which limits their ability to stop severe bleeding and can ...

For decades, scientists have been searching for quantum spin liquids (QSLs) – materials thought to possess several special ...

As if humanity needed another reason to embrace its early morning (or evening) espresso, scientists have just discovered a ...