The lethality of the phalloid is down to a toxin called α-amanitin, which triggers apoptosis – or cell death – in the liver ...

Williams, who was on her ninth spacewalk, now ranks fourth worldwide for longest accumulative spacewalking time.

If we suddenly ended up in a scenario where all of our weather-predicting tech disappeared, we’d probably be a bit stuffed if ...

More specifically, he said the pieces were probably used to play a game called “Ludus Latrunculi”, in which players attempted ...

If the human body were just a blob made up of a singular type of cell, then perhaps there would be at least some element of ...

“Although individual vaccines have been developed and approved for use in humans against SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses, ...

Looking at the Cascade Range in the US, geologists found large amounts of magma lurking beneath even long-dormant volcanoes.

"On short timescales, glass behaves much like a solid. But the liquidlike structure of glass means that over a long enough ...

It’s been trained on 771 billion unique tokens – the AI term for a unit of data – taken from databases of natural protein ...

Tractor beams using light or sound have existed for a while. Lasers can be used to create optical tweezers, a development that got Arthur Ashkin a Nobel prize in 2018 – so it is possible to move and ...

"The average human hand weighs about 0.4kg [0.9lbs], the average slap has a velocity of 11 m/s (25mph), an average rotisserie ...

HPV vaccines aim to prevent the development of HPV-related cancers by stopping the viral infection from taking hold in the ...