The virus that causes cold sores is very common, but scientists say recent research should not be a cause for panic.

A s the most massive planet in the Solar System, and first to form, Jupiter’s gravity shaped the formation of everything else ...

Electroacupuncture is based on the same principles, but instead of the acupuncture needles being manipulated by hand, they ...

You may think you’re free of addictions, but there’s a better than 50/50 chance that when the alarm goes off your response is ...

W hile photographing the auroras during a geomagnetic storm, Mike Lewinski caught sight of something extraordinary: a ...

It's easy to see where it got its name from.

To sum up, an intense geomagnetic storm has the potential to spark regional-scale blackouts, radio communications outages, significant problems for GPS navigation systems, and ext ...

What the team saw was that solutions that came with an “aha!” moment were remembered much better by participants than those ...

Western diamondback rattlesnakes are a large species of pit viper that can grow to 2.1 meters (about 7 feet) long, though ...

R esearchers have built the USA's most powerful laser yet, so powerful that the only way to describe its power is to compare it to the world's annual consumption of electricity. The instrument, called ...

T here’s a pretty big variety in the bird world. From tiny wrens and goldfinches to flightless species like ostriches and powerful swimmers like gannets, the birds of planet Earth have a lot of niches ...

To that end, Jaklenec and colleague Robert Langer have been leading research into a new type of vaccine delivery system – ...