The space station is set up as well as it can be for medical emergencies, said NASA's Zena Cardman, who commanded the crew's ...

The most commonly taken analgesic worldwide – and one of the most consumed drugs in the US – could be doing a lot more than ...

A team of scientists announced Tuesday they have developed new deep-sea landers specifically to test their contentious ...

The dark bowels of a limestone cave on Muna Island, off the coast of Sulawesi in Indonesia, just yielded an ancient secret.

Our planet has experienced dramatic climate shifts throughout its history, oscillating between freezing "icehouse" periods ...

Despite its importance, the heart is one of the few tissues in the human body that can't repair damage very well – or at ...

A quantum state of matter has appeared in a material where physicists thought it would be impossible, forcing a rethink on ...

The scientist Stephen Hawking lived with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the most common type of motor neurone disease, ...

Cows can now be counted among the animals shown to use tools deliberately – and to adapt them to different tasks.

A metric that looks beyond height and weight to underlying biological markers of metabolic health is providing revised ...

The world is entering an era of "global water bankruptcy" with rivers, lakes, and aquifers depleting faster than nature can ...

In November 2020, a freak wave appeared, lifting a lone buoy off the coast of British Columbia 17.6 meters (58 feet) high.