A new study inspired by a student's question has found something surprising about human fingers, and how they wrinkle after ...

Reading Thoreau probably inspired some people to become climate scientists; now his observations could bolster their work.

The move is part of the Trump administration’s aim to fix what it views as issues with the nation’s food supply.

S ir David Attenborough’s latest film OCEAN includes chilling footage of trawling from a point-of-view never seen before: the animals in its path. Cephalopods and rays can be seen fleeing the wall of ...

“During exercise […] it seems likely that the stimulus of physical activity creates a heightened associative state of impulse ...

“We have demonstrated, for the first time worldwide, that CRISPR-Cas9 can be used to incorporate a desired sequence into ...

It’s one of the Pacific Northwest’s most active volcanoes – but there’s a good reason you’ve probably not heard of it before: ...

I t’s a chore many dread but the science suggests most of us should be washing our bedding more often. Experts advise ...

In a worst-case scenario, infants can go on to develop bronchiolitis and pneumonia, with babies aged 0 to 2 months being ...

The new research shows how light would have spilled into the Parthenon's doorway at specific times of the year, which would ...

Scientists now have a new approach to study never-before-seen quantum phenomena. Physicists from the Massachusetts Institute ...

The world’s oldest wooden spears were probably made by Neanderthals around 200,000 years ago and used to annihilate entire ...