Researchers have discovered an unlikely link between patterns of airflow in a jet engine and how the human larynx produces sound.

Nerves transmit sound waves through your body, not electrical pulses, suggests a new study that would turn conventional thinking on its head and finally explain the longstanding mystery of how anesthetics work.

More than a quarter of U.S. businesses are unprepared for the fact that millions of baby boomers will retire in the coming decade and create a worker shortage and a deficit in expertise and talent, a new national study reports.

Long-lasting, but imperceptible tremors are caused by the slow slipping of tectonic plates and could be a warning of future mega quakes, a new study finds.

A popular game fish mistaken by scientists for a dog snapper is actually a new species discovered among the reefs of the Abrolhos region of the South Atlantic Ocean.