78 million years ago, a 1.6 km asteroid slammed into what is now Finland, creating a crater 23 km (14 mi) wide and 750 km ...

Metformin has been prescribed to people with type 2 diabetes to manage blood sugar for more than 60 years, but scientists ...

To find out more, we studied about 400,000 UK residents aged between 39 and 73, and a further 13,500 Australian residents ...

MIT physicists have proposed a way to make a super sci-fi-sounding device: a neutrino 'laser,' which could help us probe the ...

From the sands of Mongolia's Gobi Desert emerges a new, exquisitely preserved fossil that could revolutionize our ...

New research suggests that a swarm of debris from an exploding comet left its mark by triggering the Younger Dryas, a period ...

Plastic is an essential material in the modern world, but it's also environmentally costly to produce and a major pollutant.

Ancient bones discovered in a cave in Vietnam could belong to one of the world's earliest known victims of homicide.

Chimpanzees consume the equivalent of at least one alcoholic drink per day as they eat ripe, fermenting fruit, says a study out Wednesday that addresses one possible reason why humans are drawn to ...

An eye-opening experiment on cephalopods reinforces why it is so important for us not to underestimate animal intelligence.

Though the trio fits well inside a one-degree circle in the sky, they're actually a good study in astronomical distance. The Moon is only 385,000 kilometers (1.3 light-seconds) away, while Venus is ...