Going to space is harsh on the human body, and as a new study from our research team finds, the brain shifts upward and ...

Scientists have discovered an effective method for getting people to drink less alcohol, research suggests. By highlighting ...

Kissing a romantic partner is a nice way to share an intimate moment – not to mention a hearty dose of saliva and tens of millions of oral microbes.

This week in science: Mysterious molecules on Mars are tricky to explain without life; a compound that cuts cholesterol as a daily oral pill; an experimental new treatment for sleep apnea has a 93 ...

If the animal kingdom is anything to go by, love is, indeed, a many-splendored thing. We humans may have slightly over-complicated the process, with our penchant for ever-changing hairstyles and a ...

Getting older might seem like a slow, gradual process – but research suggests that this is not always the case.

Archaeologists have discovered a 10,000-year-old site with rock art in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, the country's Ministry of ...

According to the new data, Jupiter's radius measures 71,488 kilometers (44,421 miles) at its equator, and the planet rises 66,842 kilometers from its center to its north pole. That makes it 4 ...

Some forms of dementia may not be confined to the central nervous system; they may not even begin in the brain.

Human sperm can swim through surprisingly viscous fluids with ease – and they seemingly defy Newton's third law of motion to do so.

In previous work, Stupp and his team developed a material called IKVAV-PA that they used to reverse paralysis in mice with ...

Osteoporosis is a bone-weakening disease that afflicts tens of millions of people, and much-needed new treatments could be on the way after researchers discovered a key mechanism behind how exercise ...