Dr Gabriela Ligeza is a former PhD student from the University of Basel and now a postdoctoral researcher at the European ...

New modelling shows almost one in three Americans will routinely breathe air considered unhealthy for sensitive people by the ...

A surprising breakthrough suggests that a drug best known as Viagra could help treat a devastating childhood disease.

At the dawn of the 20th century, old age wasn’t much of a problem. That’s because a newborn in 1900 could expect to live, on ...

Experts have been making confident predictions about the future of energy for over a century — and they’ve often been ...

DNA evidence is supposed to be the gold standard of criminal investigation. But what happens when that same technology sends ...

From deep-sea predators to insects on the forest floor, living organisms across the planet have evolved the ability to glow.

Planetary scientists have long debated where the material that formed our Earth comes from. Despite its location in the inner ...

At the height of the Cold War, nuclear weapons were seen not only as devices of destruction, but also as tools for progress.

University of Missouri researchers have shown how an all-female fish species called the Amazon molly defies the long-held ...

People who get just a few minutes of vigorous activity daily are less likely to develop eight major diseases, including ...

From color-changing skin to jet-propelled motion, squid and cuttlefish have long fascinated scientists. To understand the ...