The world's first commercial hybrid of silicon circuitry and human brain cells will soon be available for rent.

Astronomers on Wednesday confirmed the discovery of an interstellar object racing through our Solar System – only the third ...

The molten rock was hot enough to melt the surrounding rocks and release massive amounts of carbon dioxide into Earth's ...

Simply using your food packaging in the manner it's supposed to be used is enough to contaminate your comestibles with a ...

In modern medicine, scopolamine (marketed in the UK as hyoscine hydrobromide) is prescribed to prevent motion sickness, ...

Beluga whales ( Delphinapterus leucas) have also displayed mouth-to-mouth interactions in the wild. During a study on captive ...

Cats sleep between 12 and 16 hours a day, and a new study suggests that most of them prefer to catch these Z's while lying on ...

The ocean around Antarctica is rapidly getting saltier at the same time as sea ice is retreating at a record pace.

A mold speculated to have been behind the deaths of a few who dared breach the tomb of Tutankhamun may be hiding a hopeful ...

As if sequencing a full human genome wasn't tricky enough, scientists are now attempting to reconstruct our species' genetic ...

BMI has long been used as a standard measure of obesity, endorsed by the United States Centers for Disease Control and ...

Deep sleep could forestall the declines in brain health that can eventually lead to Alzheimer's disease, the most common form ...