The enormous deep-sea cousins of your garden’s pill bugs can go five years without food. A gene they pilfered from bacteria ...

Newborn mice neurons can snap both DNA strands to migrate, then repair the breaks within a day. The process may be a normal ...

Iron and hydrogen peroxide trigger cell death via ferroptosis, which cascades killer molecules through the population, ...

Scientists thought angiosperms didn’t use animals to spread seeds until after the Age of Dinosaurs. Fossilized fruits from ...

Before now, the earliest evidence of the use of fire by hominids was from the same cave — the Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa ...

The organic molecules could come from life or from ordinary chemistry — only samples returned to Earth can settle it.

A fossil that has puzzled scientists for over 150 years is possibly the largest scorpion known to exist. At about one meter ...

At least a dozen animals have been found with the flesh-eating maggots. It could take more than a year to eradicate the ...

Researchers were unsure whether alpha particles would aid or hinder fusion. Simulations suggest they help, by dampening ...

An imaging study found early signs of coronary artery disease in people in Canada breathing air that regulators consider ...

Detached tissues from the sea cucumber's tube feet and feeding tentacles survived for more than three years, a find that ...

Vast permafrost beneath the upper slopes of Peru’s tallest volcano could become a regional water source as glaciers in the ...