Floating about in microgravity might seem like a blissful reprieve for the human body's weight-bearing skeleton, but when ...

Once again, Mars has presented us with an example of something it seems to have in abundance: extremely peculiar and baffling ...

But new data from a recent clinical trial suggests that a previously discontinued experimental drug, called gantenerumab, ...

Cases of the fungal infection Candida auris are rising rapidly and coming from more sources too, a new US study reveals.

One of the most consumed drugs in the US – and the most commonly taken analgesic worldwide – may do a lot more than simply ...

The developmental progress from daredevil teen to risk-averse senior is more complex than we thought, according to a new ...

A colossal iceberg the size of Chicago has broken from a floating glacier in Antarctica, and like a retractable roof at a ...

A new archaeological discovery at Kach Kouch in Morocco challenges the long-held belief that the Maghreb (north-west Africa) was an empty land before the arrival of the Phoenicians from the Middle ...

NASA has been monitoring a strange anomaly in Earth's magnetic field: a giant region of lower magnetic intensity in the skies ...

A species of old-growth tree that is totally new to science has been hiding out in a narrow slice of mountain rainforest in ...

There are many home-grown problems on Earth, but there's still time to worry about bad things arriving from above.

Earth's lakes are experiencing an alarming drop in oxygen levels, new research shows. Similar trends have also been observed ...