Rumored to have killed the Roman emperor Augustus, nightshade's berries are notoriously deadly. Tomatoes belong to the same ...

Researchers at Microsoft have announced the creation of the first "topological qubits" in a device that stores information in ...

If a star explodes in space and no one is around to see it, does it wreak a change on terrestrial evolution? Yes, maybe – if ...

Two shinbones provide the first evidence of carcharodontosaurs ("shark-toothed lizards") in Australia. A third shinbone ...

If we manage to reach the climate target set by the Paris Agreement, we could be living in a world that is, on average, 2 ...

In recent years, a growing number of scientific studies have backed an alarming hypothesis: Alzheimer's disease isn't just a ...

The chance that an asteroid capable of wiping out a city will hit Earth in eight years has been cut in half to around 1.5 percent, according to new calculations from NASA.

When Isaac Newton inscribed onto parchment his now-famed laws of motion in 1687, he could have only hoped we'd be discussing ...

A tank of the purest water, buried under kilometers of rock in Ontario, Canada, flashed as a barely detectable particle slammed through its molecules.

You might want to think twice about setting the mood with a scented wax melt (or at least open a window at the same time): a ...

Driving flashy cars and pumping iron are obvious ways that men try to outdo sexual rivals, but it turns out there's a far more subtle, biological method too.

The common artificial sweetener aspartame could be putting consumers at greater risk of heart disease through a newly ...