Influenza, the virus responsible for flu, is known to spread through aerosols (microscopic droplets) released when an ...

Excessive sitting isn't good for a person's physical or mental health, but there's a type of sedentary activity that may not shrink our brains or cost our cognition to the same extent.

The space station is set up as well as it can be for medical emergencies, said NASA's Zena Cardman, who commanded the crew's ...

While the study does not provide conclusive proof that the shingles vaccine leads to healthier aging outcomes, the findings add to several other observational studies linking the vaccine to widespread ...

Unemployment in the EU is at a historical low of around 6%, half the level of ten years ago. In the UK, it is even lower, at ...

The dark bowels of a limestone cave on Muna Island, off the coast of Sulawesi in Indonesia, just yielded an ancient secret.

A team of scientists announced Tuesday they have developed new deep-sea landers specifically to test their contentious ...

The most commonly taken analgesic worldwide – and one of the most consumed drugs in the US – could be doing a lot more than ...

A NASA astronaut who was stuck in space for nine months because of problems with her spacecraft has retired after 27 years of service, the space agency said Tuesday.

A quantum state of matter has appeared in a material where physicists thought it would be impossible, forcing a rethink on ...

Despite its importance, the heart is one of the few tissues in the human body that can't repair damage very well – or at least, that's what has long been presumed.

Our planet has experienced dramatic climate shifts throughout its history, oscillating between freezing "icehouse" periods ...