A large chunk of burning detritus discovered in the Pilbara desert of Western Australia appears to be space junk that ...

The idea was that as an alien civilization advances, its technology becomes too sophisticated for us to detect. We could ...

Super-resolution microscopes have revealed a whole new type of connection between neurons in mouse and human brains.

HIV is infamous for its ability to hide in the human body for decades, typically requiring long-term treatment to prevent a rebound from dormancy.

Clusters of cells grown in the lab have been encouraged to produce human blood stem cells in a discovery that could one day supplement donations to people with blood disorders like leukemia and ...

Brain tumour symptoms often resemble everyday experiences – tiredness, stress, migraines, or menopause – and overlap with ...

How fast we lose teeth in old age has been linked to a person's risk of dying in a comprehensive new study, emphasizing the ...

Towards the end of pregnancy, oestrogen levels can be 30 times higher than pre-pregnancy levels, and progesterone can be 20 times higher. When these hormones plummet back to normal after giving birth, ...

Human sperm can swim through surprisingly viscous fluids with ease – and they seemingly defy Newton's third law of motion to ...

A newly identified link between two notorious geologic zones suggests a major earthquake at one site could trigger another huge quake at the other, creating a double-whammy of destruction.

Potentially harmful DNA mutations can amass in men's sperm as they age, new research has found, which may in turn impact the ...

Scientists have identified a single gene that gives rise to a rare form of diabetes, unique to newborn babies.