High in the Ecuadorian Andes, at altitudes thousands of meters above sea level, humans face environmental pressures very ...

Malaysia has announced it will ban children under 16 from social media starting in 2026. This follows the country requiring ...

A construction site dating back nearly 2,000 years to the putative demise of Pompeii in 79 CE has revealed new evidence for ...

For the first time, astronomers have caught the moment when a supermassive black hole flare triggers a mighty wind blasting ...

They say one person's trash is another's treasure, but a chunk of 'rock' used to keep a door open for decades is a treasure ...

A controversial scientific paper that claimed the weed killer glyphosate (brand name Roundup) "does not pose a health risk to ...

Gout is often blamed on overindulgence in alcohol or unhealthy eating, but research suggests genetics plays a much bigger role in the painful arthritic condition than previously thought.

Cats meow more at owners who are men than women, new research has found, possibly because men tend to be more aloof when it comes to giving their pets attention.

In a New York operating room one day in October 2025, doctors made medical history by transplanting a genetically modified ...

Years ago, humanity lost one of its last surviving hominin cousins, Homo floresiensis (also known as "the hobbit" thanks to ...

To date, the Voyager 2 probe has provided the only direct measurements of the radiation environment at Uranus. This led to ...

A calorie-restricted diet could slow down the aging that naturally happens in the brain as we get older, according to a new ...