Cells are the fundamental units of life, forming the variety of all living things on Earth as individual cells and multi-cellular organisms. To better understand..

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) idea follows the Japanese art of kintsugi, an artist takes the broken shards of a bowl and fuses them back together..

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Scientists working in Indonesia have observed an orangutan intentionally treating a wound on their face with a medicinal plant, the first time this behavior has..

Researchers say an orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant. It's the latest example of how some animals attempt to soothe their..

The theory of “the obsolescence of man” has become one of the most aggressive social and anthropological theories in the contemporary world, reckoning with..

Scientists report that a gene previously implicated in the development of atherosclerotic lesions in coronary arteries could be key to understanding why many..

For the first time, scientists observed a primate in the wild treating a wound with a plant that has medicinal properties.

NASA has selected 40 undergraduate students for the first year of its Europa ICONS (Inspiring Clipper: Opportunities for Next-generation Scientists) internship..

Officially, only one person has caught the illness during the current outbreak. But with limited testing, cases could be flying under the radar.

A new model could explain the "cosmic glitch" at the edge of the expanding universe, where gravity weakens by about a per cent, according to new research. The..

Landfill sites along the coast could be leaking waste onto beaches and into the sea, say scientists.

Zhang had been staging a sit-in protest outside his lab since the weekend after he and his team were suddenly notified they had to leave their lab, a sign of..

Scientists debunk the 'Curse of the Pharaohs' surrounding King Tut's tomb, attributing deaths to radiation exposure, not supernatural forces. High levels of..

China achieves a milestone in lunar exploration with the release of the world's first complete high-definition geologic atlas of the moon, available in Chinese..