August brings four major celestial events, including a solar eclipse and the peak of the Perseid meteor shower. Dark New Moon skies could make the Perseids especially impressive, while Venus will ...

Photons traveling through a cloud of atoms can emerge so early that they appear to have spent a negative amount of time ...

A tiny 518-million-year-old sea creature has revealed the earliest known evidence of the structures that eventually became ...

Chemotherapy-surviving ovarian cancer cells may release fructose to help neighboring tumor cells loosen, escape, and spread.

A new 3D printing technique can produce exceptionally hard tungsten carbide cobalt while using less of its expensive raw ...

Fossilized dinosaur bones from Wyoming are offering a rare glimpse into the feeding behavior of Tyrannosaurus rex.

Scientists have successfully generated electricity with a hydrogen turbine that produces its own pressure through detonation waves instead of relying on a mechanical compressor. The breakthrough could ...

A specially engineered chewing gum reduced HPV by up to 93% and nearly eliminated two bacteria linked to head and neck cancer. The treatment preserved beneficial mouth bacteria, raising hopes for a ...

DNA traces in the Shroud of Turin reveal a remarkable mixture of human lineages, microbes, plants, animals, and coral accumulated through centuries of handling and travel. The findings do not prove ...

Low arginine levels may allow cancer cells and viruses to slip past the immune system by reducing production of a crucial ...

Weight loss is not simply a test of willpower. The human brain evolved to protect body fat during times of scarcity, and it ...

Vanderbilt researchers created the first selective compound designed to inhibit TAOK-1, a poorly understood protein connected ...