A new study reveals a previously undiscovered way that we can feel light touches: directly through our hair follicles.Before now, it was thought that only nerve endings in the skin and around...
The Universe is flooded with billions of chemicals, each a tiny pinprick of potential. And we've only identified 1 percent of them.Scientists believe undiscovered chemical compounds could help remove greenhouse gases, or...
For roughly 250 million years, some 20,000-odd species of trilobite scuttled across Earth's ocean floor. Despite the huge abundance these diverse animals in our fossil records, much of their basic biology is...
Scientists have isolated a possible new antibiotic from a strain of bacterium found in sandy soil from North Carolina.The way it works could make pathogens less likely to develop drug resistance.The potent...
Power tool batteries are some of the densest lithium-ion packs lying around your house (or construction site), but they rarely play nice with the kind of chargers and batteries that...
