In 1865, two dozen Union soldiers, all formerly enslaved, were ambushed and killed along a road in Kentucky. Archaeologists ...

Paleontologists spotted injuries on the tails of duck-billed dinosaur fossils that might have occurred during mating.

"Emotional precision," research shows, protects you from stress and depression. Here's what that means—and what you can do to ...

The experiment at CERN produced pairs of electron and positron beams, propagating into an ambient plasma. The international ...

While zoning out occasionally happened after a full night's slumber, it was much more common after the participants had ...

Migratory birds, sea turtles and salmon have something in common: every year, they return to their birthplaces to reproduce.

A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich has turned to an unconventional substance in the hunt ...

In a world first, plasma “fireballs” have been created in the lab setting using the Super Proton Synchrotron accelerator at ...

An international team of scientists, led by the University of Oxford, has achieved a world-first by creating plasma 'fireballs' using the Super Proton ...

The decades-long quest to harness the power of messenger RNA to enhance cancer treatment has focused primarily on its value ...

Physicists show knotted cosmic strings may have dominated the early universe before collapsing to create matter—a theory ...

Gravity and quantum physics interact at the event horizons of black holes, though physicists don’t understand all the details. A new theoretical study has proposed that very small black holes, dubbed ...