Humans and chimpanzees are remarkably similar, despite the major differences in how our societies have panned out.

A significant amount of Alzheimer's research is looking at ways to tackle the harmful clumps of amyloid-beta protein that ...

In 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig failed catastrophically, leading to the largest oil spill in the history of Earth's ...

Quantum computers promise an incredible leap forward in terms of performance, but a lot of that promise is still locked away ...

Known as Truk Atoll back then, it was the site of Japan's main naval base in the South Pacific Theater during World War II.

The Kondo effect is one of the most important in quantum physics, describing the strange interference that magnetic atoms can ...

The amazing animal known as Ansell's mole rat (Fukomys anselli) is one of evolution's most interesting offerings: half fuzzy ...

Many things scattered throughout the Milky Way flicker, glow, and pulse in idiosyncratic ways. From the staccato static of a ...

In 1889, Vincent van Gogh watched the sky before sunrise from his room at an asylum in Saint-Rémy, southern France.

The ovaries are among the first organs to show signs of aging, and yet we still don't really know why or how to slow down the inevitable.

In a cryogenic, superconducting vacuum trap, physicists at Northwestern University in the US successfully kept a single ...

Microglia are specialized immune cells that continually monitor and maintain the brain by detecting threats, clearing out ...