Somehow, on this beautiful blue marble we call Earth, the astonishing phenomenon we call life emerged long ago, spreading ...

A brainy human relative who lived during an ice age nearly 150,000 years ago adapted to the bitter cold by developing a ...

Around one in every 100 people worldwide has vitiligo – a chronic, autoimmune skin condition that causes the skin to appear ...

As effective as fasting can be for weight loss, it's often thought that depriving the body of sustenance might have a ...

You might not think your blood type has much to do with your health, but research suggests that it can have an effect.

But there is some evidence that the shapes of letters have some relationship to the sounds they convey. For example, one ...

This Week in Science: human remains found in an ancient, giant jar; a new member of the self-recognition club; new clues to ...

When someone is suffering from stiff and aching joints due to arthritis, the last thing they probably want to do is get up ...

For more than three decades, experts have been trying to solve the mystery of why a certain kind of underwater fault triggers ...

It's easy to feel powerless against cancer, but research has identified several ways that we can reduce the odds of it ...

A prehistoric predator to rival the most fearsome giant of them all has just been discovered lurking half-forgotten in a ...

Somehow, while the rest of the ancient Egyptian world has crumbled around it, the Great Pyramid of Khufu at Giza remains ...