"A significant body of research suggests that microplastics can reach deep into bone tissue, such as bone marrow, and ...

Researchers in the United Kingdom say they have successfully trialed what could become the world's first gene therapy for ...

Find yourself prone to anxiety? The roots of the condition could stretch back to before you were even born, according to a ...

Traditionally, most heart attacks have been blamed on clogged arteries causing atherothrombosis – where blood clots block ...

After pain was induced, the musicians reported experiencing less discomfort overall. And while the hand map in non-musicians' brains shrank after just two days of pain, the maps in musicians' brains ...

There's no escaping the unrelenting passage of time, but supercentenarians who live to see their 110th birthday have a ...

Specific combinations of microbes living in our mouths have been associated with one of the deadliest cancers in humans, suggesting good oral hygiene could do more than just save our teeth.

It's that marvelous time of year when the internet gets to vote for its favorite stuffed bear – the wild kind.

The main working hypothesis for the Mercury problem says that the planet is the victim of a collision with a different-sized object. The cataclysmic collision stripped much of the planet's mantle and ...

For 24 hours a day, seven days a week since November 2000, NASA and its international partners have sustained a continuous human presence in low-Earth orbit, including at least one American – a streak ...

The Irish mathematician and physicist William Rowan Hamilton, who was born 220 years ago last month, is famous for carving some mathematical graffiti into Dublin's Broome Bridge in 1843.

Paleontologists have discovered a new species of megaraptor dinosaur in Argentina, along with a startling clue about what it ...