Many of the fluctuations in the length of Earth's day have known causes. But on scales of decades to millennia, scientists ...

Aging brings two opposing trends in cancer risk: first, the risk climbs in our 60s and 70s, as decades of genetic mutations ...

Around one third of Australian households live with at least one cat, yet surveys tell us the cats' needs are not being met.

As the global population ages, more of us face frightening cognitive decline, personally or in our loved ones.

Here's where mistletoe becomes an unexpected hero. Scientists have discovered that extracts from mistletoe can stimulate the ...

With a surface area more than twice that of Greater London's, A23a is the biggest iceberg on the planet, having calved from ...

Ancient sheep buried in an elite grave in Egypt show the oldest evidence of humans deliberately deforming the horns of ...

In the US alone, around 300,000 children each year have their tonsils surgically removed to improve breathing while sleeping ...

In a surprise conclusion to a project dubbed The Final Experiment, several well-known believers in a non-spherical Earth have ...

Earlier this year, scientists stumbled upon a potential new treatment for hereditary-patterned baldness, the most common ...

It's time to recalibrate the navigation systems on ships, airplanes, and (given the time of year) Santa's sleigh: the ...

The discovery of new fossils reveals that a species first found in 1969 is not a member of the ginseng family, as scientists ...