They say one person's trash is another's treasure, but a chunk of 'rock' used to keep a door open for decades is a treasure ...

Nearly two decades after suffering a brainstem stroke at the age of 30 that left her unable to speak, a woman in the US ...

A pair of orcas terrorizing white sharks off the coast of South Africa may have captured the popular imagination, but their activities may be quite damaging, new research suggests.

Floating about in microgravity might seem like a blissful reprieve for the human body's weight-bearing skeleton, but when ...

But new data from a recent clinical trial suggests that a previously discontinued experimental drug, called gantenerumab, ...

Cases of the fungal infection Candida auris are rising rapidly and coming from more sources too, a new US study reveals.

A quantum machine has used entangled qubits to generate a number certified as truly random for the first time, demonstrating ...

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has detected the largest organic (carbon-containing) molecules ever found on the red planet.

Once again, Mars has presented us with an example of something it seems to have in abundance: extremely peculiar and baffling ...

One of the most consumed drugs in the US – and the most commonly taken analgesic worldwide – may do a lot more than simply ...

Earth's lakes are experiencing an alarming drop in oxygen levels, new research shows. Similar trends have also been observed ...

A new archaeological discovery at Kach Kouch in Morocco challenges the long-held belief that the Maghreb (north-west Africa) was an empty land before the arrival of the Phoenicians from the Middle ...