Scientists generally agree that Little Foot belongs to the Australopithecus genus, but disagree on which species. Some say it ...

Tiny biological batteries known as mitochondria keep the body's cells running smoothly, and their gradual decline is linked ...

At perigee – that's the closest point in its trajectory to Earth – 3I/ATLAS will be around 270 million kilometers (168 ...

Thousands of glaciers will vanish each year in the coming decades, leaving only a fraction standing by the end of the century ...

Scientists have used a specially engineered virus to help track the brain changes caused by psilocybin in mice, revealing how ...

A "house of cards" is such a wonderful English phrase, one now primarily associated with a Netflix political drama.

Although they are technically gas giants, Uranus and Neptune are referred to as "ice giants" due to their composition.

Death Valley, part of the Mojave Desert stretching across California and Nevada, is known for its extreme weather – but in ...

Blazing colors and enticing scents may be showy, but they're just one part of the toolkit plants use to lure in pollinators.

A plague that swept through Eurasia for 2,000 years – millennia before the Black Death of the Middle Ages – has only ever ...

Poop anxiety, bashful bowels, shy bowel syndrome: they're all terms for what's medically known as parcopresis or difficulty ...

Sleep is central to the proper functioning of the immune system, which in turn has implications for mental and physical ...