Any future efforts humanity wants to make to populate the Universe outside our home planet may have a pretty significant ...

Observing Bathydevius in its natural habitat, the researchers watched the animal use its voluminous hood to capture prey, ...

In childhood, the thymus is known to play a critical role in developing the immune system. When the gland is removed at a ...

An asteroid named for the ancient Egyptian god of darkness and disorder may not pose a hazard to Earth, but that does not mean Earth is not a hazard to it.

Dementia is proving very difficult to treat with medicine, but perhaps there are secret, brain-boosting ingredients already ...

Around 700 million years ago, the Earth cooled so much that scientists believe massive ice sheets encased the entire planet ...

The author John Steinbeck said: "It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after ...

There's been an exciting new discovery in the fight against plastic pollution: mealworm larvae that are capable of consuming ...

Carbon is a gregarious little atom, bending over backwards to link with a wide variety of elements in what is collectively ...

Research has found clothing can harbour many infectious pathogens – including germs such as Staphylococcus aureus (which ...

The penultimate planet, our best measurements suggest, has a whole slew of idiosyncrasies. And one of the most puzzling is ...

In 1979, the black-footed ferret was believed to be extinct. More than four decades later, scientists in the US have not only ...