Scientists are designing a new type of drug that mimics the physiological benefits of breathing in thin 'mountain air'.

The supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy may not be as voracious as the gas-gobbling monsters that ...

French scientists on Tuesday announced that they had reached a "crucial milestone" in the long road towards nuclear fusion by ...

There's a window of time in our lives we've all passed through yet still know so little about: early gestation.

Just two servings of yogurt a week may protect the bowels from some specific types of cancer, according to a new long-term study in the US.

The signal itself came from a television. That's not the puzzling part. The puzzling part is that the Murchison Widefield Array that made the detection in the remote Australian desert back in 2013 is ...

Rumored to have killed the Roman emperor Augustus, nightshade's berries are notoriously deadly. Tomatoes belong to the same ...

In recent years, a growing number of scientific studies have backed an alarming hypothesis: Alzheimer's disease isn't just a ...

The humble mushroom is a fungi with plenty of potential. Previous research has shown mushrooms can reduce depression risk, ...

If a star explodes in space and no one is around to see it, does it wreak a change on terrestrial evolution? Yes, maybe – if ...

Two shinbones provide the first evidence of carcharodontosaurs ("shark-toothed lizards") in Australia. A third shinbone ...

Researchers at Microsoft have announced the creation of the first "topological qubits" in a device that stores information in ...