After five years of staring unblinking at the sky, the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) has compiled the most detailed map ...

One stormy Monday in March, 1827, the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven passed away after a protracted illness.

Binning gum is not the solution either. Addressing gum as a plastic pollutant dictates that the prevention of gum pollution ...

One way to detect Alzheimer's early is by spotting changes to people's use of language. This is because new speech problems ...

Giving blood regularly may not just be saving the lives of other people, it could also be improving your own blood's health ...

Humans speak more than 7,000 languages today. As different as they all seem, researchers argue in a new review that they all ...

Now, US researchers have discovered that the epithelial cells that line our skin and organs are able to signal the same way ...

Could lumpy metallic rocks in the deepest, darkest reaches of the ocean be making oxygen in the absence of sunlight? Some ...

Life's building blocks may not have been crafted in the lightning flashes of a tempest, a new study suggests, so much as in the ceaseless glow of rolling ocean mists.

Children in the United States are increasingly suffering from persistent or severe health conditions, many of which are ...

A "supergiant" deposit of high-quality gold ore containing an estimated 1,000 metric tons (1,100 US tons) of the precious ...

Monkeys infected with Ebola can be cured with a pill, according to a new study out Friday that could pave the way for more ...