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

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

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 ...

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

Astronomers have found the first confirmed atmosphere around a rocky planet in another star’s habitable zone. The planet, LHS 1140 b, revealed its atmosphere through helium slowly leaking into space.

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 ...

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

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

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

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