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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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

A galaxy spotted just 330 million years after the Big Bang has been implicated in bringing light to the choking dark of the ...

Hard on the heels of impressive research findings that a glass of milk is good for reducing cancer risk, another recent study ...