Astronomers on Wednesday confirmed the discovery of an interstellar object racing through our Solar System – only the third ...

The molten rock was hot enough to melt the surrounding rocks and release massive amounts of carbon dioxide into Earth's ...

In modern medicine, scopolamine (marketed in the UK as hyoscine hydrobromide) is prescribed to prevent motion sickness, ...

Beluga whales ( Delphinapterus leucas) have also displayed mouth-to-mouth interactions in the wild. During a study on captive ...

Cats sleep between 12 and 16 hours a day, and a new study suggests that most of them prefer to catch these Z's while lying on ...

A mold speculated to have been behind the deaths of a few who dared breach the tomb of Tutankhamun may be hiding a hopeful ...

The ocean around Antarctica is rapidly getting saltier at the same time as sea ice is retreating at a record pace.

Many of us have got into the habit of listening to podcasts, audiobooks and other online content at increased playback speeds ...

As if sequencing a full human genome wasn't tricky enough, scientists are now attempting to reconstruct our species' genetic ...

Psychopaths share similarities in brain structure that differ to the rest of the population, a new study reveals, a discovery ...

BMI has long been used as a standard measure of obesity, endorsed by the United States Centers for Disease Control and ...

We know that sleep quality is important for many different aspects of our health, and there are multiple ways to get better ...