Any future efforts humanity wants to make to populate the Universe outside our home planet may have a pretty significant ...

Observing Bathydevius in its natural habitat, the researchers watched the animal use its voluminous hood to capture prey, ...

There's been an exciting new discovery in the fight against plastic pollution: mealworm larvae that are capable of consuming ...

In childhood, the thymus is known to play a critical role in developing the immune system. When the gland is removed at a ...

Around 700 million years ago, the Earth cooled so much that scientists believe massive ice sheets encased the entire planet ...

The author John Steinbeck said: "It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after ...

Dementia is proving very difficult to treat with medicine, but perhaps there are secret, brain-boosting ingredients already ...

An asteroid named for the ancient Egyptian god of darkness and disorder may not pose a hazard to Earth, but that does not mean Earth is not a hazard to it.

The penultimate planet, our best measurements suggest, has a whole slew of idiosyncrasies. And one of the most puzzling is ...

Overall, these results suggest frequent nightmares may be one of the earliest signs of dementia, which can precede the ...

Research has found clothing can harbour many infectious pathogens – including germs such as Staphylococcus aureus (which ...

The outward force from its fusion can no longer counteract the star's powerful gravity, and the star collapses in on itself.