Stanford engineers have created a plastic "skin" that can detect how hard it is being pressed and generate an electric signal to deliver thi...
A suspected case of sexual transmission of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in Liberia was confirmed using genomic analysis, thanks to in-country laboratory ...
The very act of tolerating some forms of soil pollution may give trees an advantage in the natural world, says University of Montreal plant biologists...
Scientists have projected that the onset of spring plant growth will shift by a median of three weeks earlier over the next century, as a result of ri...
At the flip of a switch, University of California, Berkeley, neuroscientists can send a sleeping mouse into dreamland. The researchers inserted an opt...
UCLA geochemists have found evidence that life likely existed on Earth at least 4.1 billion years ago -- 300 million years earlier than previous resea...
Nearly 100 fossil species pulled from a flooded cave in the Bahamas reveal a true story of persistence against all odds -- at least until the time hum...
The Death Star of the movie Star Wars may be fictional, but planetary destruction is real. Astronomers announced today that they have spotted a large,...
When a star comes too close to a black hole, the intense gravity of the black hole results in tidal forces that can rip the star apart. In these event...
In the 250-million-year evolutionary history of turtles, scientists have seen nothing like the pig nose of a new species of extinct turtle discovered ...