For most people, cold weather is an inconvenience, requiring an extra layer of clothing or the thermostat to be turned up.

Humanity has worked itself into a position where we can detect a single high-energy particle from space and wonder where in ...

Human-made ivory and stone tools have been found in a 14,000-year-old layer of Alaskan earth, providing evidence of some of ...

After a decade of work, researchers are closer than ever to a key breakthrough in kidney transplants: being able to transfer ...

In a controversial study published in April last year, researchers described an astonishing phenomenon: a forest of Norway ...

A newly discovered comet has astronomers excited, with the potential to be a spectacular sight in early April.

The effects of depression may infiltrate your very bones – and conversely, your bones may send penetrating messages all the ...

House burping' is the latest thing cluttering people's feeds: short clips of people flinging open every window and door, ...

Astronomers have announced the discovery of what appears to be an "ice cold Earth," a chilly but potentially habitable rocky world similar to our own located less than 150 light-years away.

Baby long-necked dinosaurs might have been the fast food of the Jurassic Period. A detailed food web of the time, ...

Hair samples preserved in family scrapbooks across the past century have revealed the success of the US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) efforts to crack down on lead pollution since the 1970s.

Scientists wondered whether Kanzi had the capacity to play pretend – that is, act like something is real while knowing it's ...