Most smartphones are coated with an oleophobic layer – a thin film that helps resist fingerprints and smudges. Harsh ...

Analysis of 18 different carnivorous dinosaur species' skulls has revealed that not all chompers chewed the same.

Early human ancestors may have learned to walk upright on two legs up in the trees rather than on the firm ground of Africa's ...

When you order a coffee, do you ask for it to be "extra hot"? Whether you enjoy tea, coffee or something else, hot drinks are ...

A galaxy billions of light-years across space-time has puzzled scientists since its discovery more than 50 years ago.

Free-floating, planetary-mass objects that are just drifting carefree through the galaxy, untethered and starless, appear to be able to generate their own systems of moons, like a planetary system on ...

Your dog tilts its head when you cry, paces when you're stressed, and somehow appears at your side during your worst moments.

A patient with type 1 diabetes has begun producing his own insulin after receiving a transplant of pancreatic cells.

A rare genetic mutation appears to make people basically invulnerable to viruses – and it could potentially be harnessed as a ...

All over the world, fresh water is disappearing, and a new analysis reveals that much of it is entering the ocean, with ...

Scientists have created a bacteria with a genetic code more streamlined – and more meddled with – than any other life on ...

Scientists have revealed that immune cells in Alzheimer's brains behave differently from those in brains of people without ...