The next global volcanic disaster is more likely to come from volcanoes that appear dormant and are barely monitored than ...

Compared with a lion, a tiger's roar is often raspier and higher-pitched. In fact, male and female lions produce what scientists call a "roaring bout". Each begins with a series of soft moans, ...

Progress in cutting the global toll of cancer remains painfully slow, but a new blood test has sparked unusual levels of hope ...

A strange, never-before-seen glow in the halo of our galaxy may be the strongest dark-matter breadcrumb yet. A new analysis of 15 years' worth of data from the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope reveals ...

One fateful day about 4.5 billion years ago, a Mars-sized body called Theia collided with proto-Earth, turning both into a ...

Researchers have suspected for some time that the link between our gut and brain plays a role in the onset of Parkinson's ...

It's not every day that biologists announce an entirely new branch of life, and this one has been hiding under their noses ...

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A strange phenomenon thought to only exist near the Sun has been detected in Earth's magnetic field for the first time.

Researchers have developed nasal drops that travel along the nerves of the nose into the central nervous system to fight the ...

Rising cases of chronic stress could be down to a mismatch between modern living and our own biology, according to a new ...