A new artificial intelligence system can estimate a person’s risk for more than 1,000 diseases years before symptoms appear.

Snakes have lost the gene that encodes ghrelin, a hormone that helps regulate hunger in many vertebrates, according to a new study.

A lipid hidden within cells called phosphatidylserine reveals how the body initiates the removal of threats and cellular debris.

Plastic particles can enter tea in several different ways - and teabags may play a bigger role than many people realize.

Researchers have found that a corvid bird known as a rook can learn to obey spoken human commands by listening to the words ...

An Australian spider spins a web that stretches by 150% and snaps back without breaking—a material never seen before.

A strange flicker from a star 11,000 light-years away reveals evidence of two planets crashing together in a rare cosmic ...

The Silverpit crater mystery in the North Sea appears to have been solved. Scientists say it was formed by an asteroid 43 million years ago.

A mega-study of 117 mammal species reveals that limiting reproduction increases life expectancy by up to 10 percent.

Electrons in graphene break a key law of metals and reveal a strange quantum fluid. The discovery has surprised scientists.