As we get older, the essential cleaning processes that our brains need to keep functioning start to break down and fail.

The Victorian palaeontologist Richard Owen incorrectly argued that the human brain was the only brain to contain a small area ...

Alcohol consumption was also a significant mediating factor. Night owls had a tendency to drink more alcohol overall, but ...

A stunning blue and white spiral spotted in skies across Europe late Monday was created by frozen fuel tumbling from a SpaceX ...

Scientists have a radical new plan for controlling mosquito numbers and fighting malaria: lacing human blood with a drug that ...

A modified pig liver transplanted into a human patient appears to have functioned normally for the duration of the ...

Martian dust storms can potentially cause respiratory issues and elevated risk of disease, making them yet another health hazard space agencies need to prepare for, according to new research by the ...

A previously unknown species of wasp with an abdomen reminiscent of a Venus flytrap has been discovered in 99-million-year-old Kachin amber, and entomologists have never seen anything like it.

On March 29, the Moon is going to enter perigee – the point in its elliptical orbit that brings it closest to Earth.

We're still not sure exactly what causes Alzheimer's disease, but we know what its effects look like, and we're getting better at detecting the early signs of it – including, perhaps, those in our ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has given us a view of the earliest moments of galaxy formation in the Universe.

In the murky depths of the ocean, one predator has a trait that exacerbates the dread it inspires as it slides through the ...