The world's first commercial hybrid of silicon circuitry and human brain cells will soon be available for rent.

Astronomers on Wednesday confirmed the discovery of an interstellar object racing through our Solar System – only the third ...

For the very first time, scientists have sequenced DNA from the entire genome of an individual who lived in ancient Egypt up ...

Simply using your food packaging in the manner it's supposed to be used is enough to contaminate your comestibles with a ...

The molten rock was hot enough to melt the surrounding rocks and release massive amounts of carbon dioxide into Earth's ...

Beluga whales ( Delphinapterus leucas) have also displayed mouth-to-mouth interactions in the wild. During a study on captive ...

In modern medicine, scopolamine (marketed in the UK as hyoscine hydrobromide) is prescribed to prevent motion sickness, ...

Cats sleep between 12 and 16 hours a day, and a new study suggests that most of them prefer to catch these Z's while lying on ...

As if sequencing a full human genome wasn't tricky enough, scientists are now attempting to reconstruct our species' genetic ...

Psychopaths share similarities in brain structure that differ to the rest of the population, a new study reveals, a discovery ...

The ocean around Antarctica is rapidly getting saltier at the same time as sea ice is retreating at a record pace.

Deep sleep could forestall the declines in brain health that can eventually lead to Alzheimer's disease, the most common form ...