The brain rewires itself to multitask, fast animals experience time in slow motion, an archival excerpt about a Russian space ...

Physicists discover the smallest quark-gluon plasma droplet behaving as a fluid, exploring the transition between fluid and ...

Experiments in humans and mice suggest that certain white blood cells, known as T-cells, may respond to infections more ...

Physicists know that their elegant theoretical description of forces and particles — the standard model of particle physics — must be incomplete, because there are a host of phenomena it cannot ...

Imagine stars so exotic that when they merge they produce gold, and as well emit signals so precise that they may one ...

A single teaspoon of material scooped from a neutron star would, if placed on Earth’s surface, weigh billions of tons. That ...

A supercollider may one day help us predict the fate of the Universe. Scientists will use it to find a hidden instability ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral population in Africa. By analyzing genetic data from diverse modern African ...

Cuba's former leader Raul Castro turned 95 on Wednesday, though his whereabouts were still unknown two weeks after U.S. authorities charged him with murder in connection with the downing of civilian ...

Hot weather hurts Asian crops as powerful El Nino takes shape Dry weather is disrupting crop planting across Asia, raising concerns about food supplies in the world's most populous region, and an ...