Space is full of hazards. The Earth, and its atmosphere, does a great job of shielding us from most of them.
Venom's usually the stuff of nightmares. Animals that wield it send instinctive shivers down our spines.
One of the most important open questions in science is how our consciousness is established. In the 1990s, long before winning...
Fifty-two years after the first historical Moon landing, we've been given a brand new perspective of a classic Apollo-era photo....
Looking like the Eye of Sauron from the Lord of the Rings trilogy, an ancient undersea volcano was slowly revealed by multibeam...
A small fragment of rock found lying in a field in Gloucestershire in the UK may not have looked like much to the casual passerby,...
By now you might have heard the factoid that modern humans share a pretty large chunk of our genomes with bananas. But delving...
Haruko Obokata published two papers in January 2014 that described how regular blood cells could be turned into pluripotent stem...
Mysterious strands of DNA that seemingly assimilate genes from many different organisms in their surrounding environment have...
New life quite literally sparks into being, at least under fluorescence microscopy. That moment when sperm touches egg, billions...