Researchers Robert Hazen and Michael Wong have put forward a bold new law of nature — one that could explain how everything ...

Nature is often the best model for science. For nearly a century, scientists have been trying to recreate the ability of some ...

An international research team has uncovered that natural interbreeding in the wild between tomato plants and potato-like ...

Aging and neurodegeneration are both known to disrupt the production of functional proteins in cells – a process called ...

The multiverse pops out of quite a few theories in physics, and has been proposed as a solution to certain vexing problems. But it’s also been argued that the very idea of a ...

(via Steve Mould) An EpiPen executes 3 mechanisms in quick succession when you press the tip against your thigh.

Coin tosses aren't truly random. Lava lamps help secure the internet. And quantum physics might break encryption—or save it.

Have you ever wondered why people who nearly die often describe speeding toward supernatural light, or seeing their life ...

Andrew Yockey, University of Mississippi assistant professor of public health, and Rachel Hoopsick, assistant professor of ...

Most U.S. adults have a “heart age” several years older than their chronological age — sometimes by more than a decade. And ...

Ancient Roman concrete, which was used to build aqueducts, bridges, and buildings across the empire, has endured for over two ...

Using data from several Earth-observing satellites, including ESA’s CryoSat and the Copernicus Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 ...