People in Germany essentially got paid to use electricity on Christmas.

Tabby’s star flickers like no other star we’ve seen. Some have suggested that’s due to an alien structure blocking its light, but it’s likely just dust

Well, crap. 

A small pebble found in Egypt is decidedly Not From Around Here.

Alzheimer’s disease and progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) represent neurodegenerative tauopathies with predominantly cortical versus subcortical disease burden. In Alzheimer’s disease, neuropathology and atrophy preferentially affect ‘hub’ brain regions…

Lightyear One, a car whose ability to use solar power has been thought of as an impossible feat, just won a Climate Change Innovator Award.

What do birds and aerospace engineers have in common?

This robot contains the digitized brain of a worm, and without any outside input it just... works! Here's what this could mean for the future of AI.

This Is How Your Brain Powers Your Thoughts - https://youtu.be/yxUkUaV2VPs

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In a sci-fi feeling first, engineers at the University of Bristol used the world's most powerful acoustic tractor beam to demonstrate that it's possible to stably contain objects larger than the wavelength of sound.

Our skin might give us grief sometimes, but one thing we can always depend on it to do is not start indiscriminately leaking blood and sweat everywhere - despite the fact that we're shedding roughly 500 million cells every 24 hours.

The lamprey looks about as different from a human as you can imagine. This fish has an eel-like, finless body, bulging eyes, and a circle of frankly horrifying teeth in place of a jaw, which some species use to latch onto other animals and suck the

A company in the UK is currently conducting a clinical trial of what could become the first universal flu vaccine in the world - an elusive goal that would have massive benefits for global public health and eliminate our need for annual injections.

Following President Donald Trump's annual physical exam, his physician told reporters on Tuesday that the president only sleeps four to five hours a night.

Hans Jonatan was born in the Caribbean in 1784, migrated to Iceland in 1802, and died in 1827 – and scientists have just managed to reconstruct part of his genome from 182 of his descendants, even though Hans' remains have long since been lost.

Climate scientists on Wednesday suggested that they may be able to rule out some of the most dire scenarios of what would happen if greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere were to double.

An inhalable drug is designed to move straight from the lungs to the heart, where it is hoped it will prevent the organ from deteriorating after heart attacks

It has been estimated that by 2021, humans will annually use as many as half a trillion plastic bottles.

A study using epilepsy patients undergoing surgery has given neuroscientists an opportunity to track in unprecedented detail the movement of a thought through the human brain, all the way from inspiration to response.

It's been more than a decade since the Cassini mission gave us our first close-up look at Saturn's largest satellite, Titan. Astronomers have spent years sifting through the pool of data to reveal a world that's both strangely alien and remarkably

Biologists have served up the answer to the ultimate question of life, the Universe, and everything.