Inspiration for the next big technological breakthrough in robotics, defense systems and biomedicine could come from a seahorse's tail, according ...
Mass killings and school shootings in the U.S. appear to be contagious, according to a team of scientists from Arizona State University and Northeaste...
Scientists have discovered a new inherited form of obesity and type 2 diabetes in humans. A large number of genes are involved in regulating body weig...
A team from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science, along with collaborators from several Japanese institutions, have successfully produced pair...
A University of Texas at Arlington materials science and engineering team has developed a new energy cell that can store large-scale solar energy even...
Failing to find a mating partner is a dent to the reproductive prospects of any animal, but in the flatworm species Macrostomum hystrix it might invol...
The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft first began orbiting comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in August 2014. Almost immediately, scientists...
Most wounds clear up by themselves, but some fail to heal and become chronic. An international team of researchers led from Karolinska Institutet, now...
Stringing together meaningless sounds to create meaningful signals was previously thought to be the preserve of humans alone, but a new study has reve...
Scientists behind the first global distribution maps of two species of dengue and chikungunya-carrying mosquitoes warn they are spreading to new areas...