An unlucky child born with a heart condition 17,000 years ago also had the earliest known instance of blue eyes.

They then observed the self-healing at ultra-small scales in a 40-nanometer-thick piece of platinum suspended in a vacuum.

If you're stuck for something to play with family members or friends, why not the ancient board game found in Shahr-i Sokhta ...

US regulators on Friday approved the first drug treatment for sleep apnea, permitting the use of a weight-loss medication for ...

Mice inoculated with the human gut microbiome had the highest fasting glucose, highest triglyceride levels, lowest ...

With billions of children around the world anxiously waiting for their presents, Father Christmas (or Santa) and his reindeer ...

Russian scientists on Monday showed off the remarkably well preserved remains of a baby mammoth found in the ...

Ever wondered why the colour of your snot is different when you're sick? You're probably not the first person to ask this ...

Earlier this year, scientists stumbled upon a potential new treatment for hereditary-patterned baldness, the most common ...

In the center of NGC 5084, some 80 million light-years away, the supermassive black hole around which the whole galaxy revolves has been discovered tipped over on its side, with its rotational axis ...

Aging brings two opposing trends in cancer risk: first, the risk climbs in our 60s and 70s, as decades of genetic mutations ...

The speed of the human brain's ability to process information has been investigated in a new study, and according to ...