The history of Earth isn't written in ink, but in ancient ice - buried under places so unforgivingly frozen, they're usually mistaken for wastelands.

There's something very special about all the awesome research funded by NASA - it's accessible, for free, to everyone.

Sugar, that amazingly sweet treat some of us just can't get enough of, has long been the fascination of children (and those with a child-like sweet tooth).

Few geologic events capture the imagination like an erupting volcano. We thrill at the image: Hot, molten rock comes bursting out of the ground, destroying most everything in its path.

Embedded with electrodes, these thin and stretchy plastic fibers respond to pressure, which makes them an ideal faux human nerve.

When you think of animals with dandruff, dinosaurs probably aren't the first creature that would come to mind.

Scientists say they have determined the most likely place to find traces of ancient microbial life on Mars in future missions to the Red Planet.

For the last 30,000 years the Great Barrier Reef has experienced all kinds of sea level rises, temperature changes, and sediment increases.

As an astrophysicist, I am always struck by the fact that even the wildest science-fiction stories tend to be distinctly human in character. No matter how exotic the locale or how unusual the scientific concepts, most science fiction ends up being about …

Spreading your genes through procreation is a biological imperative, and for most animals, this requires, well, staying alive to actually produce babies.

Kim Kardashian appears to now be a published scientist. If that hasn't already blown your mind, just wait till you see who she's been working with. The reality TV star and social media influencer is listed as an author on a paper published in a scientific…

Scientists have produced the first human corneas to be 3D-printed in a lab, showing how we could potentially generate this vital bit of anatomy ourselves – and save millions of people from blindness related to corneal damage along the way.

The women, on the other hand, were fine.

Powering cold, hard mechanics with muscle tissue is a promising idea that so far hasn't delivered awe-inspiring results.

Dark matter, or at least a portion of it, could be carrying an incredibly weak electrical force - equal to about a millionth of an electron's charge. That's according to data from the Experiment to Detect the Global Epoch of Reionisation Signa