The problem with unwieldy phones is they often require a second hand or voice commands to operate—which can be cumbersome and inconvenient.

Yale researchers are developing a skin cancer treatment that involves injecting nanoparticles into the tumor and killing cancer cells.

Hydrogen fuel cells convert hydrogen to electricity with water vapour as the only by-product, making them an attractive green alternative.

Scientists can make some pretty accurate forecasts about the future, but predicting what the Earth will be like in 500 years is difficult.

Europa is a prime candidate for life in our solar system, and its deep saltwater ocean has captivated scientists for decades.

Mouthfeel, and even the sound that food makes when we bite it, helps determine whether we enjoy the eating experience.

A new study shows that Oxytocin release increases with age, showing why, on average, people are more caring as they get older.

Earth-based telescopes that look that far back to the big bang (BB) 13.8 billion years ago are unable to resolve the relevant details.

Researchers have developed a sensor made of sapphire fiber that can tolerate extreme temperatures with efficiency and emission reduction.

The ambitious project aims to preserve humankind – and animal-kind, plant-kind and fungi-kind – in the event of a global crisis.

Power plants and other industrial facilities often spew carbon dioxide into the atmosphere like a leaky faucet.

Researchers have optimized the design of a nuclear battery generating power from the beta decay of nickel-63, a radioactive isotope.

A portable and rapid prostate cancer screening kit could provide early warning to populations with higher incidence of prostate cancer.

NASA's priority should be the Enceladus Orbilander - a mission to search for evidence of life on Enceladus, Saturn's sixth-largest moon.

Signs of a planet transiting a star outside of the Milky Way galaxy may have been detected for the first time.

Eggs or yogurt, veggies or potato chips? We make decisions about what to eat every day, but those choices may not be fully our own.

Researchers developed rechargeable batteries that can store up to six times more charge than ones that are currently commercially available.

Palaeontologists has discovered remarkable new evidence that pterosaurs were able to control the colour of their feathers using melanin.

The more humanity tries to do more with data, the more it’s evident that the most urgent questions won’t get answered easily.

Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity ("GR") represents space and time as a 4-dimensional "fabric" that can be stretched and folded