Calculations intended to feel out the interactions between light and the material that produces it may inadvertently describe ...

Majestic. Thunderous. Powerful. Their mighty tread and sonorous cries once reverberated across our planet. And the rise of ...

Fewer people contracted HIV last year than at any point since the rise of the disease in the late 1980s, the United Nations ...

Our records of the human genome may still be missing tens of thousands of 'dark' genes. These hard-to-detect sequences of ...

Research shows that galaxies form inside gigantic haloes of dark matter, the elusive substance that doesn't interact with ...

The eyes can reveal a lot about the health of our brain. Indeed, problems with the eyes can be one of the earliest signs of ...

A supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the US has just pulled off the largest astrophysical simulation of the ...

Visiting a haunted house could have a chilling effect on the immune system. According to new research, a jumpscare might be a ...

Using genetic tools, the scientists then blocked TYK2 in the mice with Alzheimer's. This resulted in a reduction in the ...

Although Hubble's view of the Sombrero Galaxy is stunning, it is bound by the limits of the optical spectrum. In the Hubble ...

Tiny fragments of microplastics are making their way deep inside our bodies in concerning quantities, significantly through ...

New hope for earlier treatment might be on the horizon for people suffering the most severe form of depression.