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Researchers fired a laser at a gas of muonic deuterium in order to measure the size of its nucleus.

Scientists are having a difficult time finding a treatment for the Zika virus in part because so few drugs are safe for pregnant women. But one antibiotic has shown promise.

A camera lens often used by wildlife and sports photographers has helped astronomers learn about dark matter and galaxy formation.

Three physicists have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for rewriting our understanding of exotic quantum states on the surfaces of materials.

How do scientists react to major breaking science news? For astrophysicists after the big gravitational waves announcement, it was meeting for two weeks in Santa Barbara, California.

To develop new model organisms, scientists will have to find species that are easy to grow in the lab.

The first star map from the ESA’s Gaia space telescope is poised to revolutionize our understanding of the Milky Way galaxy.

When life first emerged roughly 4 billion years ago, DNA may have been a much more malleable molecule.

When divvying something up, there's more than one way to define what's fair.

A new anole on the island of Hispaniola confirms that ecological communities can follow predictable patterns.

Mathematicians have had a hard time finding commonalities in large groups of random shapes — until recently.

By blasting a stack of minerals with a four-meter-long gun, scientists have found a new clue about the backstory of a very strange rock.