A memory chip just 10 atoms thick has been tested in a lab and integrated into conventional chips, demonstrating a technology ...

The strong nuclear force may abruptly loosen its grip on the fundamental particles that make up matter at a special “critical ...

Applying a daily serum that contains extracts of a tropical plant improved hair density and strand thickness in just 56 days ...

By tracing when variations in the human genome first appeared, researchers have found that advances in cognitive abilities ...

Older men are more likely to pass on disease-causing mutations to their children because of the faster growth of mutant cells ...

Redwing, a robotic submarine about the size of a surfboard, is embarking on a five-year journey that will follow the famed ...

Immunologist Daniel Davis wants to eradicate long-held myths and replace them with wonder at the complexity of the body’s ...

Short pulses of light that impart rotation on a material's atoms can be used to switch a property called ferroaxiality, which ...

A woman's fertility declines with age, which is often attributed to a fall in egg number and quality, but the environment of ...

The longevity of naked mole rats may partly be due to them having a variant of a key protein that boosts DNA repair – a ...

The first ever transplantation of a pig's liver into a living person helps us better understand how animal organs can be used ...

The impact that carved out the South Pole-Aitken basin on the moon appears to have come from the north, not the south as ...