People are born liking the taste of sweet and disliking the taste of bitter. These traits are thought to be protective in ...

In Colorado, as of 2025, about 500 people a year die from lung cancer as a result of radon gas exposure. Nationally, the number of lung cancer deaths attributed to radon is about 21,000 per year.

A new study gives us an idea of how much extra working time you may expect to squeeze into each day if your mental capabilities are firing on all cylinders – and it's more than you might think.

The two-toned whinnies could help horses convey multiple messages at the same time. The differently pitched neighs may help them express a more complex range of feelings when socializing, said study ...

Since mindfulness is something you can practice at home for free, it often sounds like the perfect tonic for stress and mental health issues.

A few glasses of alcohol are enough to start fragmenting the way the brain works, leading to more localized information processing and reduced brain-wide communication, a new study has discovered.

Space junk returning to the Earth is introducing metal pollution to the pristine upper atmosphere as it burns up on re-entry, ...

Thousands of marks carved into Paleolithic artifacts suggest that early modern humans were using structured symbols to communicate as far back as 40,000 years ago, a detailed analysis has found.

One of the largest stars known in the Universe has done something strange – and scientists are debating what it means.

A new Spinosaurus species has been unearthed from the Saharan desert, and its skull bears a magnificent crest never seen ...

Cases of myopia, or short-sightedness, are increasing rapidly around the world, and a new study suggests that our modern tendency to spend more time indoors could be a key driving factor.

At first, newly diagnosed cancer patients show no signs of criminality, the study found. Crime rates actually decrease in the first year after diagnosis, which is plausible considering many of those ...