sciencealert.com / .sciencealert-com

Scientists from the University of Minnesota say they have created the first-ever synthetic cell built entirely from scratch, and seen it go through an entire 'life' cycle - including reproduction.

Hundreds of people in the US so far have recently developed a specific type of food poisoning that's causing watery and occasionally explosive diarrhea.

The chronic loss of joint cartilage known as osteoarthritis causes pain and bone decay for hundreds of millions of people every day.

Humans have been tattooing themselves for thousands of years, for spiritual, cultural, or personal reasons.

Of all the strange worlds in our Milky Way galaxy, some of the most mysterious are those hanging around white dwarf stars.

A tank of the purest water, buried under kilometers of rock in Ontario, Canada, flashed as a barely detectable particle slammed through its molecules.

The standard approach to satellite imagery is to snap huge batches of pictures and beam them back to Earth, where they can be sifted through by human operators and the best available algorithms.

His name is Neil the seal, and this year, he's gotten absolutely enormous - in size and in popularity.

We've all heard of menopause: a supposedly terminal moment for the female reproductive system, in which the ovaries stop releasing eggs and presumably call it a day.

In an arid world of ice and snow, a glacier is 'bleeding'.