Photons traveling through a cloud of atoms can emerge so early that they appear to have spent a negative amount of time ...

A new 3D printing technique can produce exceptionally hard tungsten carbide cobalt while using less of its expensive raw ...

Weight loss is not simply a test of willpower. The human brain evolved to protect body fat during times of scarcity, and it ...

Thawing Arctic permafrost is releasing ancient carbon into the ocean, raising fears that microbes could turn it into ...

Taiwan’s steep, remote mountains have sheltered extraordinary forests containing hundreds of giant Taiwania firs. After years ...

Low arginine levels may allow cancer cells and viruses to slip past the immune system by reducing production of a crucial ...

Chemotherapy-surviving ovarian cancer cells may release fructose to help neighboring tumor cells loosen, escape, and spread. The discovery suggests that sugary diets and cholesterol-lowering drugs ...

Scientists have identified a molecular switch that may help explain why aging makes the brain more vulnerable to diseases ...

Vanderbilt researchers created the first selective compound designed to inhibit TAOK-1, a poorly understood protein connected ...

Scientists have figured out how two famously poisonous plants create chemicals with surprising medical potential. After ...

When atomic nuclei smash together at nearly the speed of light, they create the hottest fluid in the universe, but scientists may have overlooked one of its most important forces. New simulations ...

Dark matter particles may exert a hidden force on one another, but its effects are stranger than expected. An extra ...