The time-keeping offered by your watch or phone may be good enough for day-to-day life, but scientists are much more ambitious in terms of precision, and use atomic clocks to measure slices of time as ...

A gut pathogen that causes diarrhea and vomiting is morphing into a dangerous and difficult-to-treat sexually transmitted infection (STI).

While scientists are still continually learning what causes autism, there's already considerable evidence linking environmental exposures to the condition, in addition to genetic factors.

Taking a nice hot bath at the end of a long day is a wonderful way to unwind, but the end results can go way beyond simple relaxation.

We can often understand more about the future by looking into the past – and in the case of a new study published in Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, almost 240,000 years into the history of the ...

For now, scientists have a newly identified structure to investigate. Following proteins through these tiny channels could help answer a much larger question: when potentially har ...

"By introducing microorganisms into the gut of germ-free mice, we have conclusively demonstrated that gut colonization of microbiota is a prerequisite for feces to float," the aut ...

Superconducting materials can carry electricity with zero heat loss, which is potentially revolutionary for power grids, computer systems, and more – and which makes them of great interest to ...

Scientists have discovered a distinct change in the brains of people with long COVID that might explain some of the illness's most debilitating symptoms.

Fasting is a common requirement for many routine laboratory blood tests, with patients often instructed to avoid eating or drinking anything except water for 8 to 12 hours before their sample is taken ...

Plants are the original solar panels, and they're very good at converting light into energy – red and blue light, that is.