A fitness trend known as Japanese walking is capturing attention online, promising major health benefits with minimal ...

Not only can the drug metformin help to effectively manage type 2 diabetes, it may also give older women a better chance of ...

Turkmenistan said Thursday it had significantly reduced a gas fire that has been raging for half a century at a site dubbed ...

Taking the relatively simple step of trimming the horns of wild rhinoceroses is enough to dramatically reduce the rate at ...

In recent years, an increasing number of scientific investigations have backed an alarming hypothesis: Alzheimer's disease may not be merely a condition of an aging brain, but the product of infection ...

The number of people being diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) ...

There's something very peculiar about the atmosphere surrounding Titan, Saturn's largest moon: rather than staying constantly ...

In Europe alone, widespread drying had major consequences: reduced river flows hindered hydropower generation, crop yields ...

A never-before-seen type of giant space explosion – the biggest bangs since the Big Bang – has been accidentally captured by the Gaia space telescope.

Though rare, there are a few examples of animal collectives that link their bodies in creative ways to move around. Ants can ...

An elusive fungus capable of generating quantities of a compound used to synthesize the hallucinogen LSD has finally been ...

Dust from the Sahara desert will cloud the skies of the US southeast this week in an annual weather event that doesn't always ...