Throughout evolution sleep has remained universal and essential to all organisms with a nervous system.

Researchers have demonstrated for the first time one way that a small molecule turns a single cell into something as large as a tree

Scientists say they have proven that grandmothers have strong nurturing instincts and are hard-wired to care deeply about grandchildren.

A cold trap refers to a pocket on the surface of a solid body in which volatile gases can accrue and remain still for long periods of time.

Drinking caffeinated coffee appears to have both beneficial and harmful short-term health effects.

Blood transfusions from runners could be a ground-breaking treatment for slowing down Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.

Sugar is bad news for health — on this most would agree. But when it comes to fat, there has been real and sometimes acrimonious debate.

A promising new approach to potentially treat Alzheimer’s disease – and also vaccinate against it – has been developed by a research team.

Researchers at the NIH have discovered a therapy that targets host cells rather than bacterial cells in treating bacterial pneumonia.

The ocean has about 20 million tons of gold in it — that’s around 700 TRILLION DOLLARS worth of gold!

If you're in a foul mood and boot your robotic pet down the stairs, are you being a jerk? Is the device's owner culpable of bad behavior?

A new study of brain activity patterns in people doing a memory task finds that the way we make inferences changes dramatically as we age.

Can we infer someone's cultural group from their laugher, even when we do not know what they are laughing at?

Penicillin may be one key to turning the tide on the deadly impacts of rheumatic heart disease (RHD) for children in developing nations.

A new rocket designed to launch humans to the moon, Mars and beyond will launch next year with a familiar fuzzy figure—Snoopy.

The missing link isn’t a not-yet-discovered fossil, after all. It’s a tiny, self-replicating globule called a coacervate droplet

Materials scientists have found a way to prevent internal short-circuits, the main cause of fires in lithium (Li)-ion batteries.

A new way to convert ammonia to nitrogen gas through a process that could be a step toward ammonia replacing carbon-based fuels.

Astronomers have discovered a small black hole outside the Milky Way by looking at how it influences the motion of a star in its vicinity.

A near-Earth asteroid named Kamo`oalewa could be a fragment of our moon, according to a new paper. Kamo`oalewa is a quasi-satellite.