WASHINGTON (Xinhua) -- A team of U.S. scientists report on Monday that people who develop Alzheimer's disease may show signs of the neurodegenerative illness many decades earlier in life, includin...

Scientists from the University of South Florida and the University of Kentucky report that people who develop Alzheimer's disease may show signs of the neurodegenerative illness many decades earli...

NASA scientists have concluded that at least one of the large lakes observed on Saturn's moon Titan contains liquid hydrocarbons, and have positively identified the presence of ethane. This makes ...

UCLA space scientists and colleagues have identified the mechanism that triggers substorms in space; wreaks havoc on satellites, power grids and communications systems; and leads to the explosive rele...

Sandia researchers successfully image ice using scanning tunneling microscope...

New Hubble Space Telescope observations of six spectacular galaxy clusters acting as gravitational lenses have given significant insights into the early stages of the Universe. Scientists have found t...

Researchers have overcome a major obstacle in producing transistors from networks of carbon nanotubes, a technology that could make it possible to print circuits on plastic sheets for applications inc...

Even a quiet stroll in the park can dramatically change natural ecosystems, according to a new study by conservation biologists from the University of California, Berkeley. These findings could have i...

Research scientists at Columbia University's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science have achieved a breakthrough by proving that the carbon material graphene is the strongest mate...

The Pinwheel galaxy is gussied up in infrared light in a new picture from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. ...