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

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

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

Chemotherapy-surviving ovarian cancer cells may release fructose to help neighboring tumor cells loosen, escape, and spread. The discovery suggests that sugary diets and cholesterol-lowering drugs ...

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

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

Thawing Arctic permafrost is releasing ancient carbon into the ocean, raising fears that microbes could turn it into ...

Taiwan’s steep, remote mountains have sheltered extraordinary forests containing hundreds of giant Taiwania firs. After years ...

Scientists have identified a molecular switch that may help explain why aging makes the brain more vulnerable to diseases ...

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

Scientists have figured out how two famously poisonous plants create chemicals with surprising medical potential. After ...

When atomic nuclei smash together at nearly the speed of light, they create the hottest fluid in the universe, but scientists may have overlooked one of its most important forces. New simulations ...