Metamaterials provide researchers with a new concept of designing artificial materials, bringing vigor and vitality to advanced materials.

The missing link isn’t a not-yet-discovered fossil, after all. It’s a tiny, self-replicating globule called a coacervate droplet.

Archaeologists have started a dig at a 5,000-year-old tomb linked to King Arthur hoping to answer questions surrounding the site.

For most children and even some adults, swallowing pills or tablets is difficult. A drug-delivering gel makes medicine easier to swallow.

For centuries, people have been using mindfulness meditation to try to relieve their pain, but how does it actually work?

Removing cash welfare from children when they reach age 18 greatly increases the chances that they will face criminal justice charges.

MIT researchers have developed a portable desalination unit, weighing less than 10 kilograms, that can generate drinking water from seawater

A new study has brought the first evidence of nonrandom mutation in human genes, challenging a core assumption at the heart of evolution.

Researchers have found that a drug first developed to treat Alzheimer’s disease, schizophrenia and sickle cell disease reduces obesity.

New research provides evidence that prunes are a prebiotic food that reverses bone loss and helps restore bone health.

How fast can wild animals adapt? Faster than previously thought based on a global study examining rates of evolution in 15 species.

AI technology enables learning of the stiffness levels and distributions of the tumor, suggesting the possibility of cancer diagnosis.

It’s what’s inside Stanleycaris’ head that has researchers most excited. Remains of the brain are still preserved after 506 million years.

Research has discovered that feeling hungry really can make us “hangry”, with emotions such as anger and irritability strongly linked to it.

Mice fed a high-fat diet for 30 weeks were considerably more likely to develop diabetes, face cognitive impairments, and develop depression

Heart disease — the leading cause of death in the U.S. — is so deadly in part because the heart, unlike other organs, cannot repair itself.

According to this scenario, life on Earth was originally based on RNA only, and DNA and protein enzymes evolved later.

Understanding the relationship between Alzheimer’s disease and the brain’s complex network of vessels and veins is a challenge for science.

Visceral fat is often dubbed the ‘hidden' fat because it lies in the body's midsection, where it can't be touched or seen.

The result surprised the research group: compared to pure barium titanate of a similar thickness, the current flow was up to 1,000x stronger