On June 19, the six-wheeled explorer officially completed the longest day trip of any robot vehicle on another planet. In a ...

The membrane-bound organelle appears to play a huge role in helping cells sort, discard, and recycle their contents. It's ...

From one perspective, the Sun is a benevolent orb of plasma and its warmth makes Earth habitable and has kept if habitable ...

Volcanic eruptions can destroy essential infrastructure, ground air traffic for days, wipe out entire cities, disrupt the ...

If you are a daily drinker you may feel a bit worse to start with while your body adjusts to not having alcohol in its system all the time. You may initially notice disrupted sleep, mood changes, ...

A pet cat in Florida may have made scientific history by enabling the discovery of not one but two new strains of viruses.

New research highlights a crucial time window very early on in life, during which the introduction of eggs and peanut butter ...

Significant brain defects known as Chiari malformations could be down the genes some of us have inherited from Neanderthals, ...

Emergency vaccination during outbreaks of diseases like cholera, Ebola and measles have over the past quarter-century reduced ...

This association seems to suggest that Monday anxiety affects the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, the body's main ...

Disaster victims trapped beneath the rubble of a collapsed building or mine may one day be rescued by a tiny and unlikely ...

Cannabis use may leave lasting fingerprints on the human body, a study of over 1,000 adults suggests – not in our DNA code ...