A little over 5 million years ago, water from the Atlantic Ocean found a way through the present-day Strait of Gibraltar. According to this theory, oceanic water rushed faster than a speeding car dow ...

Radiation from CT scans may account for 5% of all cancers annually, according to a new study out of UC San Francisco that cautions against overusing and overdosing CTs. The danger is greatest for infa ...

Patients who receive an add-on medication soon after a heart attack have a significantly better prognosis than those who receive it later, or not all. These are the findings of a new study from ...

Is sauerkraut more than just a tangy topping? A new University of California, Davis, study published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology suggests that the fermented cabbage could help protect yo ...

The cost of raw arabica beans, the core component of most coffee, has spiked in recent years due to four consecutive seasons ...

For the study, published in Lancet Public Health, researchers analysed Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures of deaths ...

Using electrodes in a fluid form, researchers at Linköping University have developed a battery that can take any shape. This ...

A study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), a centre supported by the "la Caixa" Foundation, has ...

Dr Hannah Fry arms herself with a hammer to test out the difference between toughened and ordinary glass. What's the secret ...

I didn’t plan on becoming particle physicists’ enemy number one, but somehow I have. Here’s how it all happened.

(via Mark Rober) Sometimes you gotta go full Tom Cruise to really teach the science.

In part one of our interview, Mark P. Mills, the Executive Director of the National Center for Energy Analytics and the ...