More than half of the world's pet cats are overweight, experts estimate, and soon, these chubby felines may be treated with a ...

Research suggests a surprising link between blood type and stroke risk, with people carrying one specific group A blood type ...

In recent years, an increasing number of scientific investigations have backed an alarming hypothesis: Alzheimer's disease ...

Deep in the mountains of southern Brazil, a bright orange frog, just over a centimeter long, hops into the spotlight.

A sperm donor, who is an asymptomatic carrier of a genetic mutation increasing the risk of cancer, was used to conceive ...

From August 2026, you'll be able to sprinkle a little science into your tabletop competition with the worldwide delivery of ...

The taming of fire is credited with sparking humanity's evolutionary journey towards our modern levels of intelligence.

A small group of patients with an otherwise incurable form of T‑cell leukaemia have seen their cancer driven into remission ...

Growing mistrust of tap water has helped turn bottled water into a global staple, even in countries where public supplies are ...

What you gain in a day by staying up late might be curtailing how long you live, according to a new study linking insufficient sleep to a lower life expectancy.

The MAVEN spacecraft – Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution – abruptly lost contact with Earth on 6 December 2025 while passing behind the red planet in the normal course of its orbit. When MAVEN re ...

A construction site dating back nearly 2,000 years to the putative demise of Pompeii in 79 CE has revealed new evidence for ...