Australia's normally dry, rust-colored outback has erupted into a spectacular carpet of wildflowers after unusually heavy ...

Scientists have discovered that vanillin, the compound that gives vanilla its distinctive flavor, has powerful properties ...

A surprisingly simple change in how you walk could help relieve knee arthritis pain and even slow joint damage. In a ...

One of the world's most common plastics may pose a hidden threat to liver health. Texas A&M researchers discovered that ...

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory may have found a dramatically more efficient route to fusion energy by reversing the ...

Scientists have uncovered a hidden world of “in-between” materials that briefly form as chemical ingredients are heated, ...

Scientists in Vienna have achieved a major breakthrough in timekeeping by creating the world’s first self-stabilizing nuclear clock, a technology that could eventually surpass even the most precise ...

Not all vitamin D supplements are created equal, and new research suggests that one popular form may have an unexpected ...

Mathematics may hold unexpected clues to understanding Alzheimer’s disease. Scientists have developed a model showing how ...

Nearly a century after physicist Hans Bethe predicted them, scientists have created and directly observed unusual quantum ...

Scientists have developed a powerful new way to calculate the Kondo effect, a strange quantum phenomenon that appears when ...

Neanderthals may have used a sticky substance made from birch bark to treat wounds thousands of years before antibiotics existed. Researchers recreated ancient birch tar production techniques and ...