Historic wildfires scorched huge areas of Spain and France, with one Spanish blaze burning an area about the size of New York ...

August brings four major celestial events, including a solar eclipse and the peak of the Perseid meteor shower. Dark New Moon skies could make the Perseids especially impressive, while Venus will ...

Photons traveling through a cloud of atoms can emerge so early that they appear to have spent a negative amount of time ...

A tiny 518-million-year-old sea creature has revealed the earliest known evidence of the structures that eventually became ...

A specially engineered chewing gum reduced HPV by up to 93% and nearly eliminated two bacteria linked to head and neck cancer. The treatment preserved beneficial mouth bacteria, raising hopes for a ...

Chemotherapy-surviving ovarian cancer cells may release fructose to help neighboring tumor cells loosen, escape, and spread.

Scientists have successfully generated electricity with a hydrogen turbine that produces its own pressure through detonation waves instead of relying on a mechanical compressor. The breakthrough could ...

Low arginine levels may allow cancer cells and viruses to slip past the immune system by reducing production of a crucial ...

Scientists have identified a molecular switch that may help explain why aging makes the brain more vulnerable to diseases ...

Scientists have figured out how two famously poisonous plants create chemicals with surprising medical potential. After ...

Vanderbilt researchers created the first selective compound designed to inhibit TAOK-1, a poorly understood protein connected ...

Thawing Arctic permafrost is releasing ancient carbon into the ocean, raising fears that microbes could turn it into ...