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

For the very first time, scientists have sequenced DNA from the entire genome of an individual who lived in ancient Egypt up ...

Simply using your food packaging in the manner it's supposed to be used is enough to contaminate your comestibles with a ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

A vitamin commonly found in fresh fruits and vegetables could help slow one of the visible signs of aging: thinning skin.

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 ...