An ancient skull, warped and damaged by the ravages of time and degradation, may have just altered our understanding of the ...

In 2023, neurologists at a memory clinic in China diagnosed a 19-year-old with what they believed to be Alzheimer's disease – making him the youngest person ever to be diagnosed with the condition.

With help from amateur astronomers, scientists tracked how an asteroid travelled from space, broke up in Earth's atmosphere ...

Until Homo floresiensis was discovered, scientists assumed that the evolution of the human lineage was defined by bigger and ...

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

After pain was induced, the musicians reported experiencing less discomfort overall. And while the hand map in non-musicians' ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 caused quite a stir last year when it was discovered and originally calculated to have a 3 percent chance of hitting Earth.

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

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 ...

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

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.