The lethality of the phalloid is down to a toxin called α-amanitin, which triggers apoptosis – or cell death – in the liver ...

Williams, who was on her ninth spacewalk, now ranks fourth worldwide for longest accumulative spacewalking time.

If we suddenly ended up in a scenario where all of our weather-predicting tech disappeared, we’d probably be a bit stuffed if ...

More specifically, he said the pieces were probably used to play a game called “Ludus Latrunculi”, in which players attempted ...

Looking at the Cascade Range in the US, geologists found large amounts of magma lurking beneath even long-dormant volcanoes.

If the human body were just a blob made up of a singular type of cell, then perhaps there would be at least some element of ...

“Although individual vaccines have been developed and approved for use in humans against SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses, ...

"On short timescales, glass behaves much like a solid. But the liquidlike structure of glass means that over a long enough ...

Music is an important part of human life, found in every society that we know of. As such, it's pretty interesting to learn how the art form is changing over time, and with the advent of new musical ...

Harnessing the ultrasonic vibrations of tiny viral particles is leading researchers down new paths of discovery.

Tractor beams using light or sound have existed for a while. Lasers can be used to create optical tweezers, a development that got Arthur Ashkin a Nobel prize in 2018 – so it is possible to move and ...