The North American flying squirrel fluoresces pink at night under ultraviolet light, but the purpose of the pink color is still a mystery to researchers.

New research confirms that leaves are nature's most sophisticated environment sensors. We can therefore use leaves to tell us about the management of the land they are growing in. The experiment ..

Microscopy technique could help researchers design safer reactor vessels or hydrogen storage tanks.

Advances in stem cell research offer hope for treatments that could help patients regrow heart muscle tissue after heart attacks, a key to patients achieving more complete recoveries. Scientists today..

Placebo effects do not only occur in medical treatment — placebos can also work when psychological effects are attributed to them.

An international team of researchers has significantly improved the propagation of data inside a microchip.

Hundreds of genes have been newly linked to depression, shedding light on the origins of the condition and highlighting personality types that could be at risk. The international study, involving more..

Researchers have replicated five medieval inks using 15th and 16th century recipes.

Streptomyces are soil-dwelling bacteria that produce approximately two-thirds of the antibiotics in current clinical use.

Marketed and prescribed for a variety of muscle and nerve conditions, compounded topical pain creams and gels work about as well as placebos, a new study shows.