A new study has identified a protein that appears to be essential for hair growth and hair follicle protection.

An exotic state of matter has been found lurking within a previous exotic state which had discovered in a magnetic compound ...

A colossal iceberg the size of Chicago has broken from a floating glacier in Antarctica, and like a retractable roof at a ...

A pair of orcas terrorizing white sharks off the coast of South Africa may have captured the popular imagination, but their ...

They say one person's trash is another's treasure, but a chunk of 'rock' used to keep a door open for decades is a treasure ...

Einstein was aware of the effect but said in 1936 that "there is no hope of observing this phenomenon directly." But as ...

Nearly two decades after suffering a brainstem stroke at the age of 30 that left her unable to speak, a woman in the US ...

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has detected the largest organic (carbon-containing) molecules ever found on the red planet.

Europe's CERN laboratory said on Monday that a detailed analysis revealed no technical obstacles to building the world's biggest particle collider, even as critics took issue with the "pharaonic" ...

An unusual pattern of tiny rock tunnels, first found in Namibia's desert roughly 15 years ago, could be the work of an unknown life form – a mysterious microorganism unlike any other described ...

One of the most consumed drugs in the US – and the most commonly taken analgesic worldwide – may do a lot more than simply ...

A quantum machine has used entangled qubits to generate a number certified as truly random for the first time, demonstrating ...