The human heart beats 60-100 times a minute, without you needing to pay any attention to it. Heart function is controlled by ...

In the case of Deinococcus radiodurans, this principle plays out in dramatic fashion. The bacterium shrugs off massive doses of radiation because its proteins are shielded by manganese-based ...

Pieris and her colleagues studied weather data from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), which has been observing the ...

A mysterious disease has popped up in the DRC and seems to be particularly deadly to children, but we are still not sure ...

A team of researchers has now observed something physicists had only theorized: a quasiparticle that behaves like it has mass ...

The surprising way crocodile scales form offers a glimpse into how evolution works beyond genes.

In a superhot rock system, water is injected deep into hot rock, heated and returned to the Earth’s surface as steam that can ...

Participants consistently picked the wrong knot, believing the weakest knots were the strongest. And for many among the few who guessed correctly, their reasoning was off the mark. They focused on ...