According to a new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine, human cellular development appears to depend on the...

The presence of rounded pebbles on Mars was evidence of a prior history of water on the planet. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)...

New research focused on the personal microbial cloud. (Credit: Viputheshwar Sitaraman, of Draw Science) Humans are walking ecosystems. Each of...

An international astronomy team has detected two supermassive black holes that appear to be orbiting each other in a nearby...

Ötzi Reconstruction (© South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology – www.iceman.it) Hikers discovered Ötzi the Iceman in the Ötztal Alps of...

Physicists at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory used 3D printed materials and a simple glass bead to create a magnifying...

sing designer genes, researchers at UB and Harvard were able to 'turn on' specific neurons in the brainstem that result...

Ebola virus (Public Health Image Library via Wikimedia Commons The fast-moving news about the West Africa Ebola outbreak – the...

News about glacial melting in Antarctica has been uniformly grim; the loss is likely unstoppable. News about melting of the...

Three physicists involved with fusion research have found an elegant way to convert light to matter. And, it can be...

Healthy wildlife populations aren’t always good news. Sweden’s largest nuclear power plant had to be shut down for three weeks...