Rumored to have killed the Roman emperor Augustus, nightshade's berries are notoriously deadly. Tomatoes belong to the same ...

If a star explodes in space and no one is around to see it, does it wreak a change on terrestrial evolution? Yes, maybe – if ...

Researchers at Microsoft have announced the creation of the first "topological qubits" in a device that stores information in ...

French scientists on Tuesday announced that they had reached a "crucial milestone" in the long road towards nuclear fusion by managing to maintain raging-hot plasma for a record 22 minutes.

The toxic bite of a Gila monster can kill a human, but a specific ingredient in the cocktail of the lizard's venom is the ...

The signal itself came from a television. That's not the puzzling part. The puzzling part is that the Murchison Widefield Array that made the detection in the remote Australian desert back in 2013 is ...

In recent years, a growing number of scientific studies have backed an alarming hypothesis: Alzheimer's disease isn't just a ...

Two shinbones provide the first evidence of carcharodontosaurs ("shark-toothed lizards") in Australia. A third shinbone ...

Disposable plastic containers could be leaching dangerous chemicals into your takeaway food, potentially increasing your risk ...

A tank of the purest water, buried under kilometers of rock in Ontario, Canada, flashed as a barely detectable particle ...

If we manage to reach the climate target set by the Paris Agreement, we could be living in a world that is, on average, 2 ...

There is a very small chance that an asteroid capable of taking out an entire city could strike Earth in less than eight ...