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

We cannot escape the dimensions of the classical Universe – three spatial directions and the inexorable march of time. But gravity may not be bound by the same rules that apply to flesh and stone. It ...

Two of Earth's largest ice sheets have lost more than 12 trillion US tons of ice in just 47 years, according to a major report authored by 58 scientists from institutions around the world.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

A new investigation into the ancestry of dog genetics, reported in Nature Communications, could go some way to explaining why ...