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

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

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

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

Chemotherapy-surviving ovarian cancer cells may release fructose to help neighboring tumor cells loosen, escape, and spread.

Scientists have successfully generated electricity with a hydrogen turbine that produces its own pressure through detonation waves instead of relying on a mechanical compressor. The breakthrough could ...

A specially engineered chewing gum reduced HPV by up to 93% and nearly eliminated two bacteria linked to head and neck cancer. The treatment preserved beneficial mouth bacteria, raising hopes for a ...

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 ...

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

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