Exercise is good for you – that much we can all agree on – but which exercises work best for which types of benefit? Knowing ...

In a report published in The New England Journal of Medicine, researchers document a case of complete regression of ...

Scientists have identified eight chemicals commonly used to preserve food that are linked to a greater risk of high blood pressure.

There's a lot more to sleep than just the amount of time that passes between you drifting off and waking up again – and the ...

Woolly mammoths – elephant-sized relatives of modern elephants wrapped in thick fur – once roamed the frozen grasslands of ...

We know, broadly speaking, that staying active keeps us healthy, and getting in a certain amount of steps each day is a ...

The progressive bone-weakening disease is estimated to affect as many as 500 million people worldwide, triggering up to 37 ...

It's not every day that a new species is discovered. Nope, that figure is closer to 44 new species per day, on average, as science identifies over 16,000 new organisms per year. Many of these may be ...

Geologists have discovered that the African continent will split apart sooner than we thought. An active rift has reached a ...

Since a 19th century theory put forward by German physiologist Ewald Hering, color scientists have considered the hues red, ...

Very few, if any, animals single-handedly represent an entire geological episode lasting nearly 100 million years. But ...

A German WW1 submarine known as SM UC-30 was returning home in April 1917 when it hit a British mine and sank.