Earlier this year, scientists discovered a peculiar term appearing in published papers: "vegetative electron microscopy".

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A bad day and a dead end for a Cretaceous ant has parlayed into some pretty spectacular science some 113 million years later.

We all need a way to get along in this wild, wicked world, and a rare insect found only on a mountainside on O'ahu has found ...

While most of us take the ground beneath our feet for granted, written within its complex layers, like the pages of a book, ...

There are a lot of things in Earth's night sky, and every now and again, they line up in such a way to give us all a little ...

There was an average of 6.9 years' worth of general health data for each participant included in the study. Participants had worn wrist accelerometers for seven days to estimate their physical ...

Adaptive deep brain stimulation was approved earlier this year by the US and European health authorities. It involves a computer interpreting brain activity and deciding whether to adjust the ...

This week brings the Hubble Space Telescope's 35th birthday – but instead of getting presents, the Hubble team is giving out ...

Gold dust in eyes might seem like an unusual therapy – but a new mouse study in the US shows the approach could potentially ...

An unprecedented coral bleaching episode has spread to 84 percent of the world's reefs in an unfolding human-caused crisis ...

For most humans who have breathed Earth's air over the course of history, our deaths have disappeared from record, as ...