One of the most consumed drugs in the US – and the most commonly taken analgesic worldwide – may do a lot more than simply ...

A colossal iceberg the size of Chicago has broken from a floating glacier in Antarctica, and like a retractable roof at a ...

There are many home-grown problems on Earth, but there's still time to worry about bad things arriving from above.

A species of old-growth tree that is totally new to science has been hiding out in a narrow slice of mountain rainforest in ...

Earth's lakes are experiencing an alarming drop in oxygen levels, new research shows. Similar trends have also been observed ...

Would you add a few more vegetables and whole grains to your diet in return for a healthy old age? A new study has broken ...

NASA has been monitoring a strange anomaly in Earth's magnetic field: a giant region of lower magnetic intensity in the skies ...

The 20-20-20 rule is a simple but effective strategy for protecting your eyes against digital strain. Every 20 minutes, take ...

What drives us to send probes throughout the Solar System and rovers and landers to Mars? It's not cheap, and it's not easy.

A quantum state of light was successfully teleported through more than 30 kilometers (around 18 miles) of fiber optic cable ...

Your risk of developing Alzheimer's disease depends largely on your genes and your age, but that doesn't mean it's out of ...

Experiments like these are vital to the scientific process, but without evidence for multilevel selection in wild animals, ...