An exotic state of matter has been found lurking within a previous exotic state which had discovered in a magnetic compound ...

A new study has identified a protein that appears to be essential for hair growth and hair follicle protection.

If the genes of a tiny, bumless invertebrate are anything to go by, our anuses might be repurposed sperm chutes.

Einstein was aware of the effect but said in 1936 that "there is no hope of observing this phenomenon directly." But as ...

Europe's CERN laboratory said on Monday that a detailed analysis revealed no technical obstacles to building the world's biggest particle collider, even as critics took issue with the "pharaonic" ...

A pair of orcas terrorizing white sharks off the coast of South Africa may have captured the popular imagination, but their ...

Nearly two decades after suffering a brainstem stroke at the age of 30 that left her unable to speak, a woman in the US ...

They say one person's trash is another's treasure, but a chunk of 'rock' used to keep a door open for decades is a treasure ...

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has detected the largest organic (carbon-containing) molecules ever found on the red planet.

Once again, Mars has presented us with an example of something it seems to have in abundance: extremely peculiar and baffling ...

Floating about in microgravity might seem like a blissful reprieve for the human body's weight-bearing skeleton, but when astronauts spend months in space, their bone density takes a serious hit that ...

Cases of the fungal infection Candida auris are rising rapidly and coming from more sources too, a new US study reveals.