A mysterious object temporarily orbiting Earth is a 54-year-old rocket, not an asteroid after all, astronomers confirmed.

Tokyo police have installed cellphone jammers at five unmanned ATM locations in the capital to prevent “refund scams,” a growing scourge...

A rare nine-legged octopus was discovered off the coast of northeastern Japan.

Social media was abuzz after reports that an object emitting an intense light had been spotted falling from the skies above Japan in the...

The brains of healthy adults recovered faster from a mild vascular challenge and performed better on complex tests if the participants...

The US Air Force has succeeded in making a nuclear-capable B-1 bomber carry a cruise missile on its fuselage, paving the way for each...

Two teams of scientists have resolved a longstanding controversy surrounding the origins of complex life on Earth.

Mothers who have recovered from COVID-19 may have antibodies in their breast milk.

Facebook, apparently sensing the inevitable shitstorm that would proceed on Election Day, preemptively set up changes to what kind of...

China says it has detected the coronavirus on packages of imported frozen food, but how valid are its claims and, if true, how serious is...

A new breast cancer therapy that promises to destroy tumours inside the body has been developed in Wrocław in Poland.

A total of 97 pilot whales and three dolphins died after a mass stranding on a remote beach in New Zealand.

AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford's coronavirus vaccine's high efficacy may have been in part due to a dosing error.

Genes that can protect human cells against COVID-19 have been identified by experts.

South Korea's drug safety agency has approved clinical trials of vaccine and treatment candidates currently under development by two...

People infected with coronavirus are most likely to pass on the virus in the first five days after showing symptoms.

A lobster species rarely caught by local fishermen has been included for the first time on the TaiBNET (Catalogue of Life in Taiwan)...

Diamonds might be forever, but that doesn't mean they have to take eons to form.

A type of coral was found to have died en masse off the coast of the Jikamuro district of Suo-Oshima, an island in Yamaguchi Prefecture.

The U.S. Defense Department said that it has successfully destroyed an intercontinental ballistic missile target from a Navy ship using a...

As clinical trials of novel coronavirus vaccines enter their final phases overseas, new problems have come to light in Japan over...

The moon’s shadowed, frigid nooks and crannies may hold frozen water in more places and in larger quantities than previously suspected.

The drug maker Pfizer said that its coronavirus vaccine was 95 percent effective and had no serious side effects — the first set of...

Sinovac Biotech’s experimental COVID-19 vaccine CoronaVac triggered a quick immune response but the level of antibodies produced was...