A fitness trend known as Japanese walking is capturing attention online, promising major health benefits with minimal ...

In recent years, an increasing number of scientific investigations have backed an alarming hypothesis: Alzheimer's disease may not be merely a condition of an aging brain, but the product of infection ...

Taking the relatively simple step of trimming the horns of wild rhinoceroses is enough to dramatically reduce the rate at ...

Turkmenistan said Thursday it had significantly reduced a gas fire that has been raging for half a century at a site dubbed ...

A never-before-seen type of giant space explosion – the biggest bangs since the Big Bang – has been accidentally captured by the Gaia space telescope.

The number of people being diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) ...

In Europe alone, widespread drying had major consequences: reduced river flows hindered hydropower generation, crop yields ...

Though rare, there are a few examples of animal collectives that link their bodies in creative ways to move around. Ants can ...

An elusive fungus capable of generating quantities of a compound used to synthesize the hallucinogen LSD has finally been ...

When the New Horizons spacecraft swept past Pluto and Charon in 2015, it revealed two amazingly complex worlds and an active ...

A drug used to relieve the debilitating symptoms of menopause may also be reducing the risk of invasive breast cancer, a new clinical trial by Northwestern University suggests.

The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the Universe – a singular moment when space, time and matter sprang ...