The preprint website arXiv has announced that researchers who have put their names to papers that included errors clearly ...

Getting older might seem like a slow, gradual process – but research suggests that this is not always the case.

There's something living in the fog – but you'll be glad to know that it's mostly friendly. Researchers at Arizona State ...

An Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo believed to have killed more than 90 people has been declared an ...

After decades of stigma, researchers are studying cannabis and its compounds like never before. As regulations and ...

That's why so many discoveries are made not in the field, but in museum backrooms, among wonders half-forgotten for decades.

A joint European-Chinese spacecraft is set to blast off Tuesday to investigate what happens when extreme winds and giant ...

Trying to persuade kids to eat healthily is a challenge many parents face, and a small new study suggests that pregnancy ...

Scientists in South Korea have developed experimental contact lenses designed to send electrical signals through the retina ...

Although your genes play a powerful role in the way you age, a new study of people around the world suggests that it's not ...

Since satellites began monitoring the poles in the late 1970s, the seasonal growth and retreat of Antarctic sea ice – frozen ...

A new study has revealed a previously hidden layer of the human genome. An international team has found evidence that over ...