With the help of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, an international team of researchers led by scientists in the Department of ...

Mold can survive the harshest of environments, so to stop harmful spores from growing on future space stations, a new study ...

A new study reveals the surprisingly convergent evolution in the inner ear of mammals. An international research team led by ...

In a new study, MIT physicists propose that if most of the dark matter in the universe is made up of microscopic primordial ...

From incantations in ancient Egypt, bloodletting in 18th century Europe, to President Coolidge inhaling poisonous chlorine gas in 1924, the common cold has inspired a variety of creative t ...

(via Kurzgesagt) You’ve got trillions of viruses inside you – right now! But these aren’t the viruses you fear. Some of them ...

(via Kite & Key) Are we at the beginning of the end of fossil fuels? That’s the theory advanced by an international coalition of politicians who aim to get us to net zero carbon emissions by the year ...

Pregnancy is a transformative time in a person’s life where the body undergoes rapid physiological adaptations to prepare for motherhood — that we all know. What has remained something of a mystery is ...

The rings of Saturn are some of the most famous and spectacular objects in the Solar System. Earth may once have had ...

For as long as scientists have studied trees, we have categorised them into two types based on the sort of wood they make.

Inspired by the architecture of human bone’s tough outer layer, engineers at Princeton have developed a cement-based material ...

McGill University researchers have harnessed the power of sunlight to transform two of the most harmful greenhouse gases into ...