Scientists have revealed that immune cells in Alzheimer's brains behave differently from those in brains of people without ...

When you order a coffee, do you ask for it to be "extra hot"? Whether you enjoy tea, coffee or something else, hot drinks are ...

A galaxy billions of light-years across space-time has puzzled scientists since its discovery more than 50 years ago.

Your dog tilts its head when you cry, paces when you're stressed, and somehow appears at your side during your worst moments.

Free-floating, planetary-mass objects that are just drifting carefree through the galaxy, untethered and starless, appear to be able to generate their own systems of moons, like a planetary system on ...

All over the world, fresh water is disappearing, and a new analysis reveals that much of it is entering the ocean, with ...

Markets are understood to work by rationing scarce resources towards endless wants. Scarcity affects prices – what people are ...

A patient with type 1 diabetes has begun producing his own insulin after receiving a transplant of pancreatic cells.

Even when breathing normal air, however, the Croatian athlete's abilities are impressive. He can hold his breath for up to 10 ...

Ann Hodges never intended to be famous, but in 1954 she found herself thrust into the national spotlight when her afternoon ...

From the southeastern shores of Australia, a new fossil has just given us a never-before-seen species of prehistoric baleen whale.

Billions of sea stars have wasted away in recent years, their crustose, spiny bodies melted to goop by a mysterious illness ...