The geology of the ocean floor is truly spectacular — perhaps even more than land geology. Unfortunately, it's really hard to ...

A new study suggests that swearing helps people “not hold back,” boosting physical performance by nudging the brain into a ...

Now scientists have formally described it as a new species: Brachycephalus lulai, a pumpkin toadlet found only in a small ...

Researchers have shown that a bacterium plucked from the gut of this frog can successfully eradicate aggressive colon tumors ...

Recent clinical trials have shown that regular-fat cheese doesn’t ruin blood lipid profiles the way butter might. In fact, ...

Astronomers are scratching their heads at the odd chemistry, which hints at soot clouds and possibly diamond formation deep ...

Music lessons are less likely to make children smarter and more likely to reveal the curiosity and discipline they already ...

A black hole the mass of at least ten million suns is tearing through space, fast enough to escape its home galaxy. As it ...

Ramanujan’s insights into pi are now guiding scientists toward a deeper understanding of how the universe works.

The project is called Rogfast, short for Rogaland fastforbindelse, or “fixed link.” When completed, it will become the world’s longest and deepest undersea road tunnel. Stretching roughly 27 ...

Zooming in on the auditory cortex, the researchers found three unique sets of neurons that light up while we listen to music. Two sets of neurons encode absolute pitch (individual musical notes) and ...

Traditionally, X-ray methods require at least 10,000 atoms to generate a detectable signal. This is because the X-ray signal ...