A sequence of stress signals among specialized clean-up cells in the brain could at last reveal why some immune responses can ...

One eruption thought to be responsible for the global cooling event from 1831 to 1833 was attributed to Babuyan Claro in the ...

As we enter a new year armed with resolutions to improve our lives, there's a good chance we'll also be carrying something less helpful: extra kilos.

When a pregnant woman had her blood sampled back in 1972, doctors discovered it was mysteriously missing a surface molecule ...

Austrian-born physicist Erwin Schrödinger described a thought experiment that magnified a glaring problem at the heart of ...

Back when the Universe was new, following the Big Bang some 13.8 billion years ago, galaxies took a bit of time to assemble ...

Throughout recorded history, our hair and nails played an important role in signifying who we are and our social status.

Stimulating either of a pair of crucial nerves that carry messages from the brain to several major organs could be an ...

A review on the health effects of microplastics has some scientists suspecting the worst. The tiny synthetic particles that ...

On Wednesday, Mukuku Village in Kenya got an unexpected visitor from space. At about 3 p.m. local time, a large metallic ring ...

The virus responsible for the 'stomach flu' or 'winter vomiting disease' is causing more trouble than usual this winter in ...

New research shows that the reservoirs of magma that fuel the supervolcano 's wild outbursts seem to be shifting to the ...