In a discovery that blurs the boundaries between human genetics and virology, scientists have identified a human gene ...

An image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope of galaxy cluster MACS J0417 is part of repeated observations to monitor for the ...

When abdominal muscles contract, pressure rises in blood vessels connected to the brain through the spinal column.

Submarine caldera eruptions are difficult to study because their most important processes occur beneath the ocean.

Researchers have also found many different allotropes of boron that exhibit unique chemical properties. However, there is one ...

A new study from MIT and collaborators, published in Science, reveals a surprising culprit: ceramides, fatty molecules produced in response to a high-fat diet. The team discovered ...

In order to determine the strength of Gravity, scientists employed a torsion balance, a device that is able to detect small ...

The research shows that the human brain is in fact two old nervous systems combined together: one primitive section which ...

Viruses are master builders. With no blueprint, no scaffolding, and no external machinery, they somehow snap together ...

Researchers at Caltech have now unveiled a device that can steer one beam of light using another, in just 74 femtoseconds, ...

Artist’s concept depicting Elias 2-24 b, the youngest exoplanet detected to date, still growing within the disk of gas and ...

This artist's concept depicts a tidal disruption event, which occurs when a star passes fatally close to a supermassive black ...