Early experiments suggest a patch that delivers harmless electric currents into the skin can thwart certain bacterial ...

The use of "anno domini" and "before Christ" to mark time began in the early days of Christianity, and they're still used to track calendar years today.

A large new analysis suggests that some people carry genetic variants that make them more likely to have female than male ...

A new animated map sheds light on the superhot "zombie star" at the heart of a nebula leftover from a distant supernova ...

"Zebrahub" is an atlas of cells in developing zebrafish embryos, and scientists say it will help us learn about our own ...

An invasive Burmese python in the Everglades was spotted eating a white-tailed deer around 67% of its mass by stretching its ...

"Killer electrons" stashed in radiation belts around Earth could be dislodged by lightning to create a game of "cosmic ...

The Endurance shipwreck spent 107 years submerged in Antarctic waters before being rediscovered and later scanned in 3D.

U.S. health officials are investigating a multi-state outbreak of bacterial infections that has been linked to McDonald's ...

Four "potentially hazardous" space rocks, which are between 100 and 580 feet across, will all make their closest approaches to Earth within less than 12 hours of one another on Thursday (Oct. 24). Two ...

Geoenvironmental scientist Hiroto Nagai used publicly available climate data from the North and South poles to compose an ...

The Boeing-made Intelsat 33e satellite broke apart in orbit over the weekend. But company representatives don't yet know why.