In 1958, when chemist Ronald Breslow proposed a theory about vitamin B1, people found it impossible to believe. It turns out ...

A controversial new theory about how the universe began rejects the widely-held belief that it started with a giant cosmic eruption known as the Big Bang. One scientist suggests that the cosmos grew ...

Every year, Santa Claus races around the globe in a matter of hours to bring presents to children all over the world.

In the study, published in Research Notes of the AAS, lead author Thomas Marshall Eubanks of the aerospace firm Space ...

Axolotls and flatworms regenerate lost body parts through body-wide coordination, not local repair. Scientists analysed that ...

When molecular biologist Francis Crick tripped on the psychedelic drug LSD in 1953, his mind famously pulled together all of his previous research on human DNA to conceive of the image of a double ...

The cosmos has served up a gift for a group of scientists who have been searching for one of the most elusive phenomena in ...

Oxygen traditionally was not supposed to be formed in the early universe, especially after the Big Bang, but now a shocking ...

A fringe new theory suggests that time is the fundamental structure of the physical universe, and space is merely a byproduct. According to Gunther Kletetschka, a geologist — not a physicist, you’ll ...