Plastic pollution is seeping into the Earth, into wildlife, and into our bodies, and a new research review suggests tiny ...

Little Foot was originally discovered in 1980 in Sterkfontein Cave in South Africa. As the nickname suggests, the first traces were four small ankle bones. It wasn't until the 1990s that scientists ...

Climate change's rising seas may threaten tens of millions more people than scientists and government planners originally ...

A second pregnancy alters the brain in distinctive ways that are not simply a repeat of the first, new research shows.

For the first time, scientists have created functional hair follicles in the lab that naturally cycle through periods of ...

An Australian teenager who died after eating beef sausages on a camping trip has been confirmed as the nation's first death from a tick-induced meat allergy.

The King's Trough complex, about 1,000 kilometers (roughly 600 miles) off the coast of Portugal, is known as the 'Grand ...

Melatonin is typically considered safe and well-tolerated for short-term use among those who are not pregnant or ...

Repurposing treatments to treat multiple conditions is quicker, safer, and less expensive than developing new ways to manage ...

The rise of carbon dioxide (CO2) in Earth's atmosphere is detectable and measurable in the blood of its human inhabitants, a ...

The placebo response was high, suggesting that simply participating in the study helped many teens feel able to improve their ...

The idea that life can spread from world to world dates as far back as ancient Greece and the philosopher Anaxagoras.