In a long-term study of 159,347 participants, led by Harvard researchers, the DASH diet was consistently associated with the ...

When colleagues and I found microplastics in hedgehog droppings, we wanted to know where they were coming from.

There's a fair chance you've not heard of the risks of the Toxoplasma gondii parasite – and a lack of awareness around it is ...

A churning pool of water has opened up in Yellowstone National Park – just two days after scientists were walking around on ...

For decades, our picture of Mars was of a dead desert world. Its magnetic field exists only in sparse patches. Its lakes and ...

We may not have a definitive cure for cancer yet, but thanks to research, we have an expanding list of risk factors, ...

Everyone knows that no information can escape a black hole. But a gravitational wave rippling outward from a massive ...

France on Wednesday announced the first confirmed case of Ebola identified on its territory, a doctor who had flown back from ...

Humans and great apes have been giggling in similar ways since branching off the evolutionary tree, a new study suggests.

Genetic deterioration may not have been the major cause of Neanderthal extinction, new evidence suggests. In fact, new ...

The first moments of life are a delicate yet busy time, when one cell becomes two, then four, and a flurry of genetic cues ...

We have all heard it: "It's just in your head." When work deadlines pile up, financial worries linger or an unexpected public ...