Earth won't remain habitable forever. According to some research, the aging Sun will render it lifeless in about 900 million ...

Ever since its formation around 4.5 billion years ago, Earth's rotation has been gradually slowing down, and its days have ...

A mutation that helps insects survive our chemical onslaught has been found in one of the worst places imaginable: the genome of the common bed bug.

Depending on who you follow on social media, you may have come across talk of a little-known herb called ashwagandha over the ...

Learning to control fire was a game-changer for ancient humans, who could use it to cook food, see at night, and endure cold ...

A re-examination of the distribution of powerful space explosions suggests that the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall, a ...

The idea of growing teeth in a lab has vague horror movie connotations, but it could serve a real, practical, non-scary ...

Dogs are sociable, enthusiastic and widely used to comfort people in settings like hospitals, schools and care homes.

Have you ever wondered why you don't have thick hair covering your whole body like a dog, cat or gorilla does? Humans aren't ...

A single-celled microbe that revels in Earth's most hostile salt lakes has the remarkable ability to transform its mote of a ...

Symptoms of young-onset dementia have considerable overlap with those common in certain mental health conditions, such as ...

While dementia is much more common in older adults, hundreds of thousands of people are diagnosed with young-onset dementia ...