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

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

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

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

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

The fossil record shows that our Homo erectus ancestors were the first hominins to show signs of adapting to life on the ...

One of the most popular supplements sold in the US could be having an unintended side effect, research suggests.

If we really want to know how our coastlines are going to fare under extreme conditions, we're going to need some extreme ...

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

Obesity is associated with a huge range of serious health problems, raising your risk of heart disease, multiple cancers, and ...

Earlier this year, scientists from the Norwegian government dug up quite the surprise in the Arctic abyss – teeth, bones, and ...

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.