Adding one extra electron-trapping region to a quantum device helped researchers control it quickly while making it less ...

Lower sugar exposure during the earliest years of life was linked to lower rates of several cancers and signs of slower ...

Common low-calorie sweeteners can alter the growth of gut bacteria, and some effects become stronger when the sweeteners are ...

A device that delivers gentle electrical pulses through the ear was practical to use at home in a small blood-pressure trial.

Crocodile relatives may have survived the asteroid catastrophe that killed the non-bird dinosaurs partly because they were ...

Fat hidden among the muscles along the spine may reveal health problems that ordinary body-weight measurements miss. An ...

An apparently modest cosmic explosion produced one of the brightest afterglows astronomers have seen in two decades.

Colliding oxygen nuclei has produced evidence of the hot, dense matter that filled the universe shortly after the Big Bang.

Scientists have discovered how a change usually linked to battery aging could be controlled to improve a promising electrode ...

People who reported frequent television watching in middle age had smaller volumes in several brain regions more than 20 ...

A vast layer of ocean water has begun becoming saltier and denser as Antarctic sea ice shrinks, reversing a decades-long ...

Bacteria associated with gum disease may contribute to calcium buildup in a heart valve, preliminary research suggests.