Since a 19th century theory put forward by German physiologist Ewald Hering, color scientists have considered the hues red, ...

In tunnels gouged under Mount Mantap in North Korea, six nuclear devices were detonated between 2006 and 2017. Now, ...

You can now listen to the exact sound of Earth's magnetic field falling apart. Around 41,000 years ago, our planet's magnetic ...

The brain is an immeasurably complex organ, and we're only just scratching the surface of how it even comes into existence.

Mitochondria turn energy from food into ATP, the molecule that powers almost everything cells do. How they achieve such ...

Controlling the door is the blood-brain barrier: a tightly sealed border around the brain's blood vessels. But in Alzheimer's ...

According to Einstein's theory of general relativity, gravity does not discriminate. Matter, antimatter – it's all the same as far as gravity is concerned, and it all should fall in exactly the same ...

Geologists have discovered that the African continent will split apart sooner than we thought. An active rift has reached a ...

Two remote Indigenous communities in the Bolivian Amazon are said to have some of the lowest rates of dementia in the world.

A German WW1 submarine known as SM UC-30 was returning home in April 1917 when it hit a British mine and sank.

Greenland and Antarctica are rapidly losing ice, removing enormous loads from the crust beneath them and allowing the solid ...

Scientists have identified two simple body measurements that together are linked to nearly double the risk of death.