Mercury is extraordinarily toxic, but it becomes especially dangerous when transformed into methylmercury—a form so harmful ...

A super typhoon sweeping towards the Philippines on Saturday was intensifying and could have a "potentially catastrophic" ...

The rod-shaped tuberculosis (TB) bacterium, which the World Health Organization has once again ranked as the top infectious ...

No one knows exactly when or where an earthquake will strike. But computer simulations are helping scientists and engineers ...

Scientists can determine the mass of subatomic particles that are built from quarks by looking at the particles' energy and ...

The idea of maturing oocytes in the ovary to produce offspring has been implemented in various ways. One such method, ovarian ...

Recent estimates indicate that deadly antibiotic-resistant infections will rapidly escalate over the next quarter century.

A team of physicists at ETH Zürich has built the first-ever working mechanical qubit. In their paper published in the journal ...

An international team of researchers has achieved an unprecedented milestone: the creation of mouse stem cells capable of ...

Animals and plants also live and thrive on public squares. This creates opportunities for greater biodiversity and well-being ...

An international team of scientists using observations from NASA-German satellites found evidence that Earth's total amount ...

Some of the first human beings to arrive in Tasmania, over 41,000 years ago, used fire to shape and manage the landscape, ...