Scientists question whether alarming reports of plastic particles in human organs are accurate or the result of laboratory contamination.

A Sydney Ph.D. student has recreated a tiny piece of the universe inside a bottle in her laboratory, producing cosmic dust ...

Nearly everyone in the United States has forever chemicals in their blood. Companies have long used these chemicals to make products that withstand water, oil and heat, including non-stick pans and ...

For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are ...

One way to think about NAD+ is as an energy courier. It shuttles electrons to the mitochondria, where ATP is produced. When ...

How physically magnifying objects using a key ingredient in diapers has opened an unprecedented view of the microbial world.

Spurred by her past struggles with dissociative identity disorder, she has devoted her professional life to studying it.

The orchid is said to be the most exotic of all flowers. Their fragile beauty has made them a favorite corsage flower.

A robust, largely unregulated online trade in isopods could pose a serious threat to some vulnerable species, scientists warn.

For the first time, clumps of human cells called organoids were fully integrated with the brains of rats—and influenced their ...

Chia seeds absorb ten times their weight in water, according to Dawn Jackson Blatner, a registered dietitian-nutritionist in Chicago and author of The Superfood Swap. Because of this, experts often ...

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole. Parallels in the physics of the universe and that of black holes have led ...