In Earth's highly radioactive hotspots, life can get pretty strange – from fungus that seems to thrive to an explosion of ...

Back in 2019, an international team first identified 109 genes linked in different combinations with eight psychiatric ...

Other recent studies have found that vitamin B1 supplements can be effective at treating gut inflammation. In 2020, a ...

We know that physical exercise is good for our health and longevity, but new research shows how even the smallest differences ...

Two artifacts found at a lake shore in Greece are the oldest wooden tools to be uncovered so far and date back 430,000 years.

Astrophysicists are closer than ever to solving the mystery of what makes up almost 70 percent of the Universe.

Three huge tectonic plates meet at the Mendocino triple junction off the coast of northern California, and a new study reveals that the underlying geology is significantly more complex than current ...

The earliest signs of dementia are rarely dramatic. They do not arrive as forgotten names or misplaced keys, but as changes so subtle they are almost impossible to notice: a slightly narrower ...

Every critter on this planet that relies on a sexual means of reproduction has its own way of luring in a mate – but cuttlefish can do something really special.

By the late 1990s, scientists realized that virus activity was likely shaping how carbon and nutrients cycled through ocean ...

The liver, working alongside the kidneys and gut, already detoxifies the body around the clock. For most healthy people, ...

Climate change is shifting the weather patterns of Earth in ways that are far-reaching and long-lasting, and a new study details a noticeable rise in extreme weather events in the Arctic, prompted by ...