A compound found only in hops and the main product they are used in - beer - has rapidly gained interest as a micronutrient that might help prevent many types of cancer.

Beginning Thursday, PS3 owners will be able to use the game console’s formidable processing power to help run computer simulations for protein folding research at Stanford University.

Mosquitoes genetically engineered to resist infection with a malaria parasite outbreed their normal cousins and might be used to help control malaria, U.S. researchers said on Monday.

The large asteroids with diameters measured in kilometers are not thought to be dangerous because the probability is so small that any are on a collision course with the Earth in the foreseeable future. However, there are so many unidentified smaller asteroids, that there is a statistically significant risk that some could be a disaster in the making for our planet.

A small UK startup has launched a new generation of biometric application it claims can totally replace login passwords on both standalone and networked PCs.

The most detailed 3-D map of the universe ever made, stretching back over billions of years, provides the best evidence yet that mysterious "dark matter" serves as the unseen scaffolding on which everything we can see is hung, astronomers reported Sunday.

The findings are based on years' worth of study, using data from space observatories as well as ground telescopes. But as impressive as those findings are, they still don't tell us exactly what dark matter is made of.

A way to make nanoscopic metal cables transmit light could lead to innovations in solar cells, artificial retinas and quantum computing components, say researchers.

The trick is to shrink a coaxial cable by a factor of 10,000 so the diameter is smaller than the wavelength of visible light.

A dying galaxy near the Milky Way appears to be sowing the seeds of its own rebirth and may hold the secret to the apparent reincarnation of several other similar galaxies. The phoenix-like process may also help resolve a longstanding mystery about missing dark matter clumps near the Milky Way.

The legendary Kraken was a massive squid that terrorized seafarers who dared to venture into its waters. Now researchers believe they've found proof: a 24-foot-long squid.

A remarkably well-preserved fossil of a two-headed reptile has been discovered in the Early Cretaceous Yixian rock formation in northeast China.