This glittering spaceship Earth and the Solar System it inhabits are not fixed in space, but whirl, slowly and grandly, as ...

A huge 11,000-carat ruby has been discovered in Myanmar, state media reported Friday, one of the largest ever found in the ...

Supplementing the guts of older mice with poop from younger ones reveals the key role microbes play in intestinal stem cell ...

Up until the 1970s or so, the human brain was assumed to be 'hardwired' like a computer, its neural networks remaining fixed ...

Cities and towns are usually 1–3°C hotter than the surrounding countryside, because asphalt, concrete and brick absorb heat ...

The lifespans of mammals vary widely, from a brief 12 months for the Müller's giant Sunda rat to the double-century-long life ...

For children with autism spectrum disorder and with an intellectual disability, the options for improving communication and ...

The motion of galaxy clusters in the distant Universe has just yielded the largest-scale test yet of the laws of gravity.

While human beings have some impressive self-healing capabilities, we're nowhere near the level of salamanders or axolotls ...

Diet and exercise are both factors that can influence how long you live, but they're not the single greatest predictor of ...

As if humanity needed another reason to embrace its early morning (or evening) espresso, scientists have just discovered a ...

Without visual input generating a constant stream of ambiguous or unpredictable signals, the brain may settle into more ...