The “missing link” helps adults grow new neurons—something long thought to end after childhood—and that discovery could lead ...

Compound, or catadioptric, telescopes combine lenses and mirrors for a compact option, suitable for both planetary and ...

Modern motor oils include additives to prevent the buildup of harmful sludge and varnish inside the engine. They also help to ...

The mysterious goo, which a marine superintendent found in a ship’s rudder shaft housing comprised a whole new order of archaea.

Comet 31/ATLAS is only the third interstellar object to ever be observed whizzing through the Solar System. While its origins ...

About a foot under the tombstone, crews discovered the remains of a coffin holding a full skeleton. Aleksandra Pudlo from the ...

By simulating the movement of two continent-sized Big Lower-Mantle Basal Structures, or BLOBs, researchers may have uncovered ...

A uniquely preserved prehistoric mudhole could hold the oldest-ever human footprints on the Arabian Peninsula, scientists say ...

After clinical death, some of your cells refuse to quit, or even attempt to reconfigure into strange, emergent forms.

Researchers reveal how modeling the human brain’s hidden wiring could push AI beyond its current limits into human-like cognition.

When famed pirates overtook a Portuguese ship in 1721 once laden with treasure (now valued over $138 million), the battle ...

Finding a dinosaur bone in a core is like hitting a hole in one from the Moon,” James Hagadorn, the museum’s curator of ...