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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

Gold is the most noble of all known metals – it doesn't react readily with substances like the oxygen that bonds with atoms ...

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