The world's first commercial hybrid of silicon circuitry and human brain cells will soon be available for rent.

For the very first time, scientists have sequenced DNA from the entire genome of an individual who lived in ancient Egypt up ...

Astronomers on Wednesday confirmed the discovery of an interstellar object racing through our Solar System – only the third ...

The molten rock was hot enough to melt the surrounding rocks and release massive amounts of carbon dioxide into Earth's ...

In modern medicine, scopolamine (marketed in the UK as hyoscine hydrobromide) is prescribed to prevent motion sickness, ...

Beluga whales ( Delphinapterus leucas) have also displayed mouth-to-mouth interactions in the wild. During a study on captive ...

Cats sleep between 12 and 16 hours a day, and a new study suggests that most of them prefer to catch these Z's while lying on ...

As if sequencing a full human genome wasn't tricky enough, scientists are now attempting to reconstruct our species' genetic ...

The ocean around Antarctica is rapidly getting saltier at the same time as sea ice is retreating at a record pace.

A mold speculated to have been behind the deaths of a few who dared breach the tomb of Tutankhamun may be hiding a hopeful ...

Psychopaths share similarities in brain structure that differ to the rest of the population, a new study reveals, a discovery ...

BMI has long been used as a standard measure of obesity, endorsed by the United States Centers for Disease Control and ...