The moon has no shortage of craters. But a newly discovered pit discovered by NASA scientists has proven to be the cosmic equivalent of a needle in a haystack. Each month for the past 17 years, the ...

Using their new knowledge, the researchers became the first to successfully coax human stem cells into becoming hindbrain motor nerve cells. Tryfonov / Adobe Stock The brain is an incredible organ, ...

More than a year after the Trump administration dismissed hundreds of scientists working on the National Climate Assessment, clouding the landmark publication’s future, many of those researchers and ...

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Researchers want to explore the idea that microscopic particles shed by alien civilizations have accumulated on the lunar surface, making it an archive of extraterrestrial technology. By Becky ...

UCLA researchers have discovered two powerful influences that help guide how the human brain forms before birth. Radial glia, stem cells responsible for producing much of the cerebral cortex, change ...

More than a kilometer underground, in what used to be a gold mine, inside a tank filled with tons of liquid xenon, “something” struck the nucleus of an atom. The tiny collision left an unusual energy ...

SYDNEY, Aug 27 (Reuters) - A swarm of giant cockroaches may sound like the stuff of nightmares, but Australian researchers say the insects could one day be used by search-and-rescue teams ‌to deliver ...

D. Carleton Gajdusek won the Nobel Prize for his research on kuru, a fatal brain disease in Papua New Guinea. Over three decades, he brought dozens of boys from the South Pacific to live with him in ...

Ask a kindergartner to draw a scientist, and there’s a good chance a male figure will appear below the tip of a crayon. Decades of research have documented this tendency. Its persistence despite ...

An estimated six million species of insect—maybe even more—call Earth home. Yet for some reason, none of them are found in the ocean. Scientists have come up with a few possible explanations, and a ...