When metal alloys are processed during manufacturing, the atoms of the combined elements are mixed together at random, ...

Continuous sleep is a modern habit, not an evolutionary constant, which helps explain why many of us still wake at 3 am and wonder if something's wrong.

When did you last find yourself with some spare time on your hands? A lack of free time, or 'temporal inequity', could be ...

A newly discovered protein from Earth's toughest animal is inspiring breakthrough therapies for cancer and cardiovascular disease.

To take a picture, the best digital cameras on the market open their shutter for around around one four-thousandths of a second.

In a rigorous, double-blinded controlled trial, 82 healthy adults over the age of 65 were randomly assigned to play either ...

A question that has vexed physicists for the past century may finally have a solution – but perhaps not the one everyone was ...

Homing in on the junk-food pyramid to rank its most harmful members, researchers from Virginia Tech have discovered that ...

Chimpanzees can change their minds when the facts no longer support their previous beliefs – a rational level of thinking ...

Ice excavated from deep under the surface of Antarctica has just yielded humanity's oldest directly dated samples of glacial ice and air ever found.

New observations of a strange object that wobbles around the space between Jupiter and Uranus reveal what looks like a system ...

New images from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed NGC 6537, the Red Spider Nebula in unprecedented detail, ...