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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

For something that affects millions every month, period pain remains surprisingly poorly treated. A recent analysis of supermarket transaction data from over three million shoppers found that ...

The 500 million years between Earth's formation around 4.5 billion years ago and 4 billion years ago – the Hadean eon – is ...

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

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

The Euclid space telescope has captured the largest and most detailed photo ever taken of our galaxy's crowded heart, a ...

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