In a first, scientists define five types of colon neurons specialized for sending different signals to the brain.

A sociological study confirms that a considerable proportion of employees perceive their work as socially useless.

University of Tübingen study provides new insights into how young people view their own school performance.

Does an emotional connection to art really require a human artist? Science says yes!

Scientists found that stars with stronger magnetic fields produce more powerful winds.

Researchers have developed organoids –miniature, self-organized 3D tissues grown from stem cells to mimic actual body tissues and organs in the human body– that can model the human respiratory tract.

With the resulting estimates between 85 and 340 tons, the weight of the new species is in the order of magnitude of the blue whale or possibly above.

Earth’s earliest history still holds mysteries for geologists, and ancient craters could provide some answers — scientists are racing against time to find them.

Engineers create an energy-storing supercapacitor from ancient materials. The device could provide cheap and scalable energy storage for renewable energy sources.

Way Cool: UVA Professor Developing ‘Freeze Ray’ Technology for the Air Force.

An asteroid discovery algorithm has identified its first “potentially hazardous” asteroid, a term for space rocks in Earth’s vicinity that scientists like to keep an eye on.

Biologists have now discovered how the mitochondrion calls for help from the cell when it is under stress.

They are homebodies, who remain near the coast of southern Australia year-round, where they breed and feed on krill and copepods.

The platform technology, known as cytophone, detects malaria infection in blood cells using lasers and ultrasound.

Linguistics and genetics combine to suggest a new hybrid hypothesis for the origin of the Indo-European languages.

Ancient pathogens emerging from melting ice and permafrost pose a serious threat to present-day ecosystems and even humanity itself.

Scientists has developed a novel targeted therapy to alleviate pain delivered by an engineered virus.

Undernutrition during pregnancy is a critical factor associated with heightened disease risks in children as they advance in age.

Researchers engineered bacterium Escherichia coli to turn sugar from plants into the raw materials for biorenewable plastics.

NASA and its partners are deploying several new tools to observe air quality and pollution from the street to the stratosphere.