Scientists have discovered a unique form of cell messaging occurring in the human brain that's not been seen before.

Kremlin website recognises global heating as a problem but lists ‘positive’ economic effects

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Iran’s military power may be no match for the US in technology, glitz and firepower, but Tehran makes up for it with a mix of ballistic missiles, allies and tactics

The Earth may be crawling with undiscovered creatures with a different biochemistry to life as we know it.

The site was an important center for the production of metal in ancient times.

One of the world's most famous runestones is now believed to have been erected by Vikings fearing a repeat of a previous cold climate crisis in Scandinavia, a new study said Wednesday.

Apocalyptic scenes give glimpse of what would be normal conditions in 3C world

And it's helping refine the human story.

After analyzing data from the 1950s through 2019, an international team of scientists determined that the average temperature of the world's oceans in 2019 was 0.075 degrees Celsius (0.135 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than the 1981–2010 average.

In 'Out There' (Grand Central Publishing, 2018), Space.com senior writer Mike Wall tackles the search for alien life from many different angles and discusses humanity's drive to get off its natal rock. Read an excerpt from the new book here.

Roasting would have been easy. But re-creating the paleo way of boiling water requires a bit more imagination.

An Iranian international chess referee has said she is afraid to return to home after state media published photographs of her apparently not wearing a hijab as is mandatory for women under Iranian law.

Why you should consider a live-and-let-live policy with the spiders you encounter in your home.

Light-sensitive cells active in the retina even before the fetus can distinguish images may play a larger role in the developing eye and brain than previously thought. Intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells seemingly help establish blood supply…

Cows can "commooonicate" with each other, a startling new study says.

A new year brings both hopes and anxieties. We want things to be better for ourselves and the people we love, but worry that they won't be, and imagine some of the things that might stand in the way. More broadly, we might worry about who's going t

XINGU INDIGENOUS PARK, Brazil (Reuters) - She is only 16 and from a remote Brazilian village on the Tapajos River in the heart of the Amazon, but her plea has been heard at the United Nations and the Vatican.

There’s no way of making current levels of consumption ‘environmentally friendly’, says author John Vidal

The Iranian people are, for the first time in decades, worried about whether the leaders who have been their captors are not also their protectors.