Scientists have created a programmable optical chip that can slow light on demand, giving engineers far greater control over ...

Watching television very often in midlife may be linked to troubling brain changes decades later. In a study of about 1,700 ...

Ancient sediment reveals that some of K’gari’s deepest lakes vanished around 7,500 years ago, despite unusually heavy ...

Scientists have found a way to revive vancomycin, a powerful antibiotic that some dangerous bacteria have learned to resist.

For most adults, a daily caffeine habit may be safer for the heart than many people assume. A new American Heart Association ...

Researchers have uncovered a surprising culprit behind sleep loss in Alzheimer’s disease: the brain’s own immune cells. In ...

A newly discovered turning point in the Sun’s 11-year cycle could allow scientists to predict future solar activity years ...

Young children whose parents read them five books a day enter kindergarten having heard about 1.4 million more words than kids who were never read to, a new study found. This 'million word gap' could ...

Oxygen is disappearing from oceans, lakes, rivers, and coastal waters at an alarming rate, threatening aquatic life and ...

A quantum problem once described as impossible for classical computers has now been solved using relatively modest hardware.

A naturally occurring compound found in foods such as wheat germ, mushrooms, and aged cheese may help older adults build ...

Ancient DNA from China’s vast 4,000-year-old Shimao settlement is revealing how one of East Asia’s earliest complex societies was organized. Researchers found that its people were largely descended ...