A parasitic worm may raise the risk of cervical cancer through several mechanisms, scientists have found, although HPV ...

The risk of cancer goes up with age, in part because aging impedes the body's ability to detect and destroy cells with ...

In a first, researchers have developed a new copper alloy that's one of the most resilient copper-based materials ever made.

Astronomers have discovered that the magnetar SGR 0501+4516 is speeding through our galaxy at more than 110,000 mph. This ...

QNodeOS is the world's first operating system designed for quantum computers and will enable connections between different ...

A skeleton in England may have belonged to a gladiator who died fighting a large cat, possibly a lion, a new study finds.

In an unusual case, a man's multiday bout of hiccups was triggered by a respiratory infection. The symptoms: The patient went ...

Scientists on an expedition to the South Sandwich Islands near Antarctica have recorded horrifying videos of parasitic ...

According to Egyptian mythology, Horus was the son of Osiris, the god of the underworld. Horus fought his uncle Seth to see who would be ruler of Egypt. During the fight, Seth mut ...

NASA has released the Lucy spacecraft's first close-up images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing a peanut-shaped rock that could shed light on how planets formed in our solar system.

While the Statue of Liberty may not be submerged, low-lying places like Ellis Island could be underwater. By 2100, sea-level ...

NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars has discovered unusual "float" rocks on the rim of Jezero Crater while searching for signs ...