For most of the day and night, koalas barely move. They nap curled into tree forks, or chew carefree on eucalyptus leaves.

In the waters off Madagascar’s northeast coast, archaeologists say they have uncovered the final resting place of a ship ...

Atomic clocks — among the most precise instruments humans have ever built — have been keeping track of Earth’s spin since the ...

The key change is an ancient defense system. Basically, these tomatoes are manufacturing a version of an alkaloid whose ...

According to a provocative new study, that might just be our cosmic address. This idea is meant to solve one of the biggest ...

A common whiff in the Roman city would have come from the animals and the waste they created. Roman bakeries frequently used ...

The drug is Ambroxol. It’s been used for decades to treat respiratory ailments by thinning mucus and easing coughs. But now, ...

“These objects collect the dark matter that helps them become a dark dwarf. The more dark matter you have around, the more ...

A chimpanzee named Juma turned out to be quite the trendsetter. He picked up a blade of grass and stuck it in his ear, a ...

Researchers from the University of Sydney have developed a system that mimics natural selection inside living mammalian cells ...

Two processes sculpt the bones of the face: bone formation and bone resorption. Picture tiny sculptors adding and shaving away material, cell by cell. By examining where and how these molecular ...

This is one reason why the Nordic Nutrition Recommendations now specifically endorse filtered coffee over unfiltered. Nordic countries love their coffee and opting for filtered was considered a ...