Drinks including water, soda, beer and wine sold in glass bottles contain more microplastics than those in plastic bottles, ...

Although orcas around the world are all categorized as a single species, they don't really behave as one. Distinct ...

Human sperm can swim through surprisingly viscous fluids with ease – and they seemingly defy Newton's third law of motion to ...

The observatory telescope is embarking on a 10-year survey of the southern sky called the Legacy Survey of Space and Time ...

A dozen volunteers with severe type 1 diabetes showed clear improvements in their condition 12 months after receiving a ...

Infection with a common parasite can seriously disrupt the brain function of intermediate hosts – potentially including ...

A French woman from the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe has been identified as the only known carrier of a new blood type, ...

Three newly-discovered species of deep sea 'spiders' farm methane-eating bacteria on their own bodies in a symbiosis quite ...

Summer is just getting started, and millions of people are under heat advisories as a major heat wave spreads across large ...

Next month it will have been 80 years since the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were devastated by nuclear attacks.

When we hear the term "burnout", most of us would think about working long hours, and the stress built up from our jobs and ...

For centuries, humans have searched for ways to extend life. Alchemists never found the philosopher's stone, but scientists ...