As the 17 members of Nicole Smith’s third-grade class settled in earlier this week, Bella Hennessey eyed the contents of the test tube at her work station. “It looks like vomit,” she said to her lab ...

Stronger links between researchers who work on Earth’s and other planets’ atmospheres, and between the experimental, modelling and observational communities, will help to interpret the astronomical ...

Once a drug target is identified, it often takes decades until a chemical compound is developed that can hit the bullseye and ...

Scientists have recreated plasma fireballs in a lab to investigate the disappearance of certain gamma rays in space.

As NASA prepared astronauts for its second mission into space, National Geographic had exclusive behind-the-scenes access for ...

Deep within the world's oceans lurk marine bacteria armed with plastic-munching enzymes, their evolution seemingly sculpted ...

Home fertility tests could give people false hope – or unnecessary anxiety – about their chances of having a baby ...

Scientists said on Monday they had taken a first step towards being able to control stem cells -- master cells that have the ability to become any kind of cell in the body. Doctors hope one day these ...

University of Nebraska's drug design centre director is communicating his team's scientific breakthroughs with tattoos and ...

The US Navy (USN) is continuing to develop different generations of its REMUS autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) family for submarine torpedo-tube launch and recovery (TTL&R), with the successful ...