It's not every day that biologists announce an entirely new branch of life, and this one has been hiding under their noses ...

One fateful day about 4.5 billion years ago, a Mars-sized body called Theia collided with proto-Earth, turning both into a ...

If you've ever wondered what would actually happen if a microscopic black hole tunneled straight through your body, answers ...

Whether the Universe will 'end' at all is not certain, but all evidence suggests it will continue being humanity's cosmic ...

Researchers have developed nasal drops that travel along the nerves of the nose into the central nervous system to fight the ...

Researchers have suspected for some time that the link between our gut and brain plays a role in the onset of Parkinson's ...

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Those tiny, fluffy dogs walking down the street may look cute but beware – they probably have some wolf in them.

A strange phenomenon thought to only exist near the Sun has been detected in Earth's magnetic field for the first time.

It is a scientific consensus that water once flowed on Mars, and that it had a denser atmosphere, meaning that it was once ...

A new pill for treating dementia is delivering promising "topline" results in early-stage clinical trials, according to a ...

We don't yet have a cure for dementia, but we do have a growing list of factors that may influence risk – including exercise, ...