The observatory telescope is embarking on a 10-year survey of the southern sky called the Legacy Survey of Space and Time ...

A French woman from the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe has been identified as the only known carrier of a new blood type, ...

Next month it will have been 80 years since the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were devastated by nuclear attacks.

The smarter you are, the more your brain is in sync with its own secret rhythm, a new study has found.

Summer is just getting started, and millions of people are under heat advisories as a major heat wave spreads across large ...

Human sperm can swim through surprisingly viscous fluids with ease – and they seemingly defy Newton's third law of motion to ...

When we hear the term "burnout", most of us would think about working long hours, and the stress built up from our jobs and ...

Scientists have developed a new technique for non-invasive brain imaging – and it involves shining light all the way through ...

Three newly-discovered species of deep sea 'spiders' farm methane-eating bacteria on their own bodies in a symbiosis quite ...

For centuries, humans have searched for ways to extend life. Alchemists never found the philosopher's stone, but scientists ...