A tiny 518-million-year-old sea creature has revealed the earliest known evidence of the structures that eventually became ...

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 ...

A specially engineered chewing gum reduced HPV by up to 93% and nearly eliminated two bacteria linked to head and neck cancer. The treatment preserved beneficial mouth bacteria, raising hopes for a ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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