A rock on Mars spilled a surprising yellow treasure after Curiosity accidentally cracked through its unremarkable exterior.

For more than a millennium, many Andean peoples used an object called a "khipu" (also spelled "quipu" and pronounced "key-poo ...

For the first time, physicists have transformed a quantum processor into a state of matter that seems to defy physics, a ...

A rare and potentially fatal skin infection with nightmarish outcomes may soon have a cure.

Determining the passage of time in our world of ticking clocks and oscillating pendulums is a simple case of counting the ...

Mold growth in your home can be unsettling. Blackened spots and dusty patches on the walls are signs that something is amiss, ...

While humans have been making their mark on the surfaces of this Earth for at least tens of thousands of years, it's ...

Well, the verdict is in. The Moon is not made of green cheese after all.

Uranus is much further away from the Sun than Earth is, almost 3 billion km, while Earth is only about 228 million km from ...

Stem cells are special in the way they can keep on replicating, and turn themselves into many other types of cell.

The hypertension drug rilmenidine has been shown to slow down aging in worms, an effect that in humans could hypothetically ...

By phasing out sugar, we could spare land that could be rewilded and stock up on carbon. This is especially important in ...