We're way behind several species when it comes to regeneration, and scientists are keen to discover the secrets of these ...

Intestines suffer a lot of wear and tear in their daily service to digestion, requiring constant renewal of their lining.

In new research, physicists have theorized a bold way to change it up by entangling two particles of very different kinds – a ...

Imagine it's Monday morning, too cold and too dark, but once that alarm goes off, you know you've got to rally.

NASA has been monitoring a strange anomaly in Earth's magnetic field: a giant region of lower magnetic intensity in the skies above the planet, stretching out between South America and southwest ...

New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates life expectancy in the US is now higher than at ...

There's still so much we don't know about Alzheimer's disease, but the link between poor sleep and worsening disease is one ...

Once upon a time, the fishing town of Gansbaai on the South African coast was something of a mecca for shark-spotters – so heavily populated with the predators that nearby Dyer Island is considered ...

The Starliner spacecraft approaches the International Space Station carrying astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams.

On this day three years ago, we witnessed the nail-biting launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the largest and ...

The large size (for an embryo) and hollowed-out middle of each fossil is indicative that each of these embryos once fed upon ...

Regular ScienceAlert readers will likely know how pervasive microplastics are – getting into human tissue, ancient rock, and ...