Walk through any trendy suburb and you might find a new "wellness" studio offering ice baths or "contrast therapy" (a sauna ...

Early signs of Alzheimer's disease may be hidden in the way a person speaks, but it's not yet clear which details of our ...

Neanderthals who lived 130,000 years ago crafted their tools from the bones of one of their deadliest predators.

An extinct genus of ray-finned fish that lived during the Jurassic period seems to have had quite the penchant for overreaching. A new analysis of fossilized Tharsis fish reveals that the carnivorous ...

The double star system is called HD 135344 AB and it's about 440 light-years away from Earth. A and B are both young stars, ...

It might be time to invest in some blackout curtains, turn off the TV before bed, and dim those lamps. New research suggests that exposure to light at night could elevate your risk of multiple heart ...

To celebrate its third year of operations, the powerful space telescope has peered into the heart of an empyrean essence of ...

Want to remember things better as you get older? The secret might be surprisingly simple: focus on feeling good.

During a recent lightning storm, a couple from Canada caught a rare weather mystery on camera. Right from their porch, Ed and Melinda Pardy watched as a lightning bolt struck the land less than a ...

The blue shark ( Prionace glauca) might be more than its name. Scientists investigating the sleek ocean predator's skin ...

Motes of plastic less than a micrometer across could outnumber larger fragments and particles floating through the oceans to ...

The second half of July and the early days of August are the perfect time to get outside and look at the night sky.