Malaysia has announced it will ban children under 16 from social media starting in 2026. This follows the country requiring ...

Cats meow more at owners who are men than women, new research has found, possibly because men tend to be more aloof when it comes to giving their pets attention.

A construction site dating back nearly 2,000 years to the putative demise of Pompeii in 79 CE has revealed new evidence for ...

They say one person's trash is another's treasure, but a chunk of 'rock' used to keep a door open for decades is a treasure ...

For the first time, astronomers have caught the moment when a supermassive black hole flare triggers a mighty wind blasting ...

A controversial scientific paper that claimed the weed killer glyphosate (brand name Roundup) "does not pose a health risk to ...

In a Maryland operating room one day in November 2025, doctors made medical history by transplanting a genetically modified pig kidney into a living patient.

To date, the Voyager 2 probe has provided the only direct measurements of the radiation environment at Uranus. This led to ...

There's a lot of evidence that more exercise helps reduce cancer risk – but why are the two connected? According to a new mouse study, it may be down to a metabolic shift that appears to give muscle ...

Years ago, humanity lost one of its last surviving hominin cousins, Homo floresiensis (also known as "the hobbit" thanks to ...

When I worked on the latest Global Burden of Disease cancer study, a global project that tracks cancer patterns and deaths ...

A recipient of a kidney transplant presented a medical mystery when he died from rabies in January 2025 only weeks after his ...