Researchers at the University of Maine and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are ...

Cold spray whipped off the ropes as a diesel engine throbbed in the background. One by one, empty shellfish pots came over ...

An upside-down jellyfish drifts in a shallow lagoon, rhythmically contracting its translucent bell. By night that beat drops from roughly 36 pulses a minute to nearer 30, and the animal slips into a ...

Blood tests are useful tools for doctors and scientific researchers: they can reveal a lot about a body's health. Usually, a blood sample is taken to get a picture of the large molecules that are ...

Fluorine has changed the world of medicine. You might not see it, but newly approved drugs contain at least one fluorine atom ...

Reports that Victoria Police are issuing anti-association orders to "youth gang members" has sparked fresh debate about how ...

On February 4, the New START Treaty, the last remaining nuclear arms control agreement between the United States and Russia, is set to expire. Signed in 2010, the agreement caps deployed strategic ...

Desertification is accelerating under climate change, threatening biodiversity, food security, and human well-being across ...

Aging muscles heal more slowly after injury—a frustrating reality familiar to many older adults. A UCLA study conducted in mice reveals an unexpected cause: Stem cells in aged muscle accumulate higher ...

Deep in the frozen heart of Antarctica, the South Pole Telescope has been watching one of the most extreme neighborhoods in our galaxy, and it's just caught something extraordinary happening there.

Time is almost up on the way we track each second of the day, with optical atomic clocks set to redefine the way the world ...

Signs of Sir Terry Pratchett's dementia may have been present in his writing a decade before his official diagnosis, new ...