The state Assembly on Wednesday approved a measure that would allow California physicians to prescribe life-ending drugs to terminally ill patients, sending the proposal to the Senate, which had previously approved a similar bill.

Brain plaques may have been seeded by contaminated hormone extracts from cadavers.

Details of Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, are revealed in this image from New Horizons’ Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), taken July 13, 2015, from a distance of 289,000 miles (466,000 kilometers), combined with color information obtained by N ...

   Meanwhile during intermission, the atmosphere is electric, It's the Dawning of the age of Aquarius the fireworks are on to full-effect! Concessions hum and I've made it backstage! It's...

  Much the way that all breeds of dog or varieties of apples have been selected for by domestication, other manners of adaptations have been selected for by the "civilizations" of their concur...

We are in the midst of a rapidly strengthening El Niño event which will likely peak later this fall as one of the . So, what ...

Greek philosopher of nature remembered for his cosmology and for his discovery of the true cause of eclipses. He was associated with the Athenian statesman Pericles. About 480...

Entropy is a measure of the heat that's given-off by a system in the process of doing work. This heat will always flow from the hotter area to the colder area, hence heating its local region up.&nb...

Devices could track insulin levels in the body or sniff out cancerous cells.

Researchers from Columbia University, UCLA and other institutions have conducted a study on controlling the light at very small wavelengths of around 500nm, smaller than the wavelength of light itself, using random crystal lattice structures as a mea ...

A bomb blast or a rough tackle can inflict brain damage that destroys lives. Yet at the time of impact, these injuries are often invisible. To detect head trauma immediately, a team of researchers has ...

Quantum computing threatens crypto as we know it. The NSA is taking notice.

Examines W. B. Yeats's 'A Vision', the esoteric system that he and his wife, George, created around the spiral gyre and phases of the moon, underlying the achievement of his later work

Octopus genome offers clues to how these creatures evolved intelligence that rivals the craftiest vertebrates. Meet "Scooty", he's a high IQ Californian two-spotted Octopus (bimaculoides).

Physicists are united by the "coolness of quasi-crystals", here's a recap on the basics of solidarity! (Get a little amorphous, why don't ya, captain random?)

Infections may lead organisms to diversify their next generation's DNA.