In a lab in Japan, scientists sent more than 125,000 gigabytes of data per second across a distance greater than from New ...

Japan is preparing to stir a sleeping world. The goal isn’t oil or gas — it’s mud. Mud that’s packed with the rare earth ...

Thanks to its airplane-shaped folding, the paper plane is statically stable in the vacuum-like upper reaches of space. It ...

Yogurt is made through a delicate partnership between milk and two types of bacteria. Researchers at the Technical University ...

“The threat we’re talking about is unprecedented,” said Professor Vaughn Cooper, a microbiologist at the University of ...

For decades, above-the-knee amputees have had to live with stiff, uncomfortable prosthetics that felt more like rigid tools ...

Researchers from the University of Sydney have developed a system that mimics natural selection inside living mammalian cells ...

Participants consistently picked the wrong knot, believing the weakest knots were the strongest. And for many among the few ...

In the waters off Madagascar’s northeast coast, archaeologists say they have uncovered the final resting place of a ship ...

They're not actual spiders, of course, but rather strange geological features.

The team recovered protein fragments from teeth found at multiple sites across Turkana, ranging in age from 1.5 to 18 million ...

Normally, the immune system kicks off an inflammatory response to clean up damaged tissue and fight off infection. After that ...