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.

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

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

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 ...

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

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

An unusual pattern of tiny rock tunnels, first found in Namibia's desert roughly 15 years ago, could be the work of an unknown life form – a mysterious microorganism unlike any other described ...

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" ...

Floating about in microgravity might seem like a blissful reprieve for the human body's weight-bearing skeleton, but when ...