Dick Van Dyke, the legendary American actor and comedian who starred in classics such as Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, turned 100 on December 13.

A brief blaze of gamma and X-ray light that lit up Earth telescopes in November 2024 may have come from an unexpected source.

A new analysis suggests that people who stop taking Ozempic-like medications keep off about 25 percent of the weight they ...

The vivid hue of the lush green hills of Ireland may not have arisen from the mechanism many textbooks have touted for ...

However, a small but increasing number of Australians are being diagnosed with a rare tattoo-related eye condition. It's ...

Worldwide peanut production results in more than 10 million tons of waste piling up each year in the form of discarded shells – but now scientists have discovered a method of turning this biomass into ...

When 12-year-olds receive a letter from the school nurse about the HPV vaccine, their reactions are often mixed.

Research suggests you can keep your brain sharp into old age by learning languages and creating art – and it seems birdwatching may have similar effects.

A haunting whale song discovered on decades-old audio equipment could open up a new understanding of how the huge animals communicate, according to researchers who say it's the oldest such recording ...

A worrying health pattern for some of the Gen X and Millennial crowd has been highlighted by a new study: people born between 1970 and 1985 are experiencing worse mortality rates than the generations ...

While GLP-1 drugs such as Wegovy and Ozempic are now being broadly championed and widely used, several studies are revealing ...

A new analysis of samples collected from asteroid Ryugu has yielded all five canonical nucleobases that make up RNA and DNA.