Scientists have produced the most tightly knotted physical structure ever known -- an achievement which has the potential to create a new generation of advanced materials.

Critics have portrayed ECT as a form of medical abuse. Yet many psychiatrists, and more importantly, patients, consider it to be safe and effective. Few medical treatments have such disparate images.

Stanford physicist Peter Graham recently received a Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize for his new direction for looking for the most basic laws of nature.

NASA scientists are crisscrossing the globe in 2017 to investigate critical scientific questions about how our planet is changing and what impacts humans are having on it.

Wearable sensors that monitor heart rate, activity, skin temperature and other variables can reveal a lot about what is going on inside a person.

A research team reports that the moon is at least 4.51 billion years old, or 40 million to 140 million years older than previously thought.

Replacing one daily portion with poultry or fish may lower risk, findings suggest.

Researchers at Yale University have isolated the brain circuitry that coordinates predatory hunting, according to a study in the January 12 issue of Cell.

New research shows that not only can gas gather itself into planet-size objects, but those objects then are flung throughout the galaxy in a game of cosmic 'spitball.'

A multidisciplinary team of physicians published a case study today in The New England Journal of Medicine, describing the nation's first locally-transmitted case of Zika.