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A team of scientists has created the most detailed large-scale model of the universe to date, a simulation they call TNG50.

Have you ever constructed a mental image of a person you've never seen, based solely on their voice? AI can now do that, generating a digital image of a person's face using only a brief audio clip for reference.

An ancient rocky structure found at the heart of the Ross ice shelf helps determine where Antarctica's ice melts and where it stays firm and frozen.

A microscopic video of the human immune system in action reveals how our bodies blow tiny holes in foreign bacteria, while leaving our own cells intact.

Greenland's ice sheet is melting six times faster than it was in the 1980s. And all that meltwater is directly raising sea levels.

Physicists have built a ring in which pulses of light whip circles around each other and the normal rules that govern light's behavior no longer apply.

An enormous pyramid-like structure in Indonesia that may represent the remains of an ancient temple hid underground for thousands of years.

SpiNNaker doesn't just "think" like a brain. It creates models of the neurons in human brains, and it simulates more neurons in real time than any other computer on Earth.

There's something mysterious coming up from the frozen ground in Antarctica, and it could break physics as we know it.

Already, it has created one of the most intense magnetic fields ever generated on Earth. And it keeps getting more powerful.

Researchers have identified a neuron in the brain that can recognize familiar faces, even if you aren't aware of seeing them.

The nearly 3-mile-deep hole is a major step in determining the potential utilization of volcanoes' thermal energy.

Alcohol-containing mouthwash may kill off bacteria that cause gonorrhea in the mouth, according to a study in the journal Sexually Transmitted Infections.

Where in the world is the oldest ice on Earth? A team of scientists is on a mission to find out. A group of researchers from 10 European countries is traveling to East Antarctica this month to locate the oldest ice on the planet.

Neanderthals and modern humans interbred long ago, but evolution has purged many of our caveman relative's genes from modern human genomes, a new study finds.

For patients facing serious illnesses, dying isn't necessarily the thing they dread the most — according to a new survey, a majority of patients consider bowel and urinary incontinence and having to rely on a breathing machine to be fates worse than death.

If you enjoy swimming, snorkeling, surfing or scuba diving in the ocean, at some point you may have wondered how much of what you were floating in originated in the body of a marine animal.

With such a high interest in vampires these days — they're all over television, movies, and bookstore shelves — many people may be wondering if humans really can survive as vampires.

A durable plastic called PET is considered a major environmental hazard because it's highly resistant to breakdown. But researchers have found a potential new match for this hardy plastic: a newly discovered microbe that is astonishingly good at eating it.