When researchers lowered whale bones into the deep ocean, they expected zombie worms to quickly move in. Instead, after 10 ...

Science takes a closer look at the famous miracle where Jesus transformed water into wine to see how chemistry can explain ...

Nearly 4,000 m beneath the Pacific, in water so dark that sunlight has never penetrated, scientists have stumbled on a new ...

You are taught early in science that oxygen on Earth comes from sunlight. Plants, algae, and cyanobacteria use light to split ...

Life may have emerged from a surprisingly simple network of chemical reactions long before cells or genes existed.

The research is mounting up that we might not be alone in this big wide world. So what's the likelihood that aliens are out ...

Scientists are building experimental computers from living human brain cells and testing how they learn and adapt.

Part of the appeal of the Boyle myth may be that it promised a clean break: a waymark at which alchemy was cast aside and chemistry took over. But such changes rarely if ever happen in science, and ...

Studying chemical chatter as tiny balls of cells embed could shine a light on early pregnancy and glitches that lead to miscarriage ...

Inside your cells, mitochondria keep you alive by turning food into usable energy. Researchers from the University of ...

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

Many of us with throw modesty out the window when it comes to Christmas lunch. But what do these blow-out festive meals do to ...