Ultra-sensitive monitors may one day routinely have the ability to detect lung cancer on someone's breath. A small-scale test ...

Early morning hours are best to see meteors, as you're standing on the swath of the surface of the Earth that's turned ...

An unhealthy diet and an indolent life are well known causes of heart disease and stroke. But sleep apnea – where people ...

Last week, three tiny Australian satellites from Curtin University's Binar Space Program burned up in Earth's atmosphere.

At more than 160 million years old, a recently discovered amphibian fossil has set a new record for the earliest known ...

Any future efforts humanity wants to make to populate the Universe outside our home planet may have a pretty significant ...

Observing Bathydevius in its natural habitat, the researchers watched the animal use its voluminous hood to capture prey, ...

In childhood, the thymus is known to play a critical role in developing the immune system. When the gland is removed at a ...

An asteroid named for the ancient Egyptian god of darkness and disorder may not pose a hazard to Earth, but that does not mean Earth is not a hazard to it.

Dementia is proving very difficult to treat with medicine, but perhaps there are secret, brain-boosting ingredients already ...

Around 700 million years ago, the Earth cooled so much that scientists believe massive ice sheets encased the entire planet ...

The author John Steinbeck said: "It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after ...