You often need a lot of patience to be a scientist, and that's certainly been the case for researchers who have now found ...

Although measles poses the greatest immediate threat because of how contagious it is, further drops in vaccination rates ...

The Moon's surface is covered by impact craters, ranging from microscopic pits to massive basins over 1,000 kilometers across ...

A runaway sausage dog named Valerie has been captured after a 529-day adventure, transfixing Australia as she roamed an ...

Scientists investigating an alarming rise in bowel cancer in young adults have identified the bacterial toxin colibactin as a ...

Functional neurological disorder is one of the most common medical conditions seen in emergency care and in outpatient ...

A US teenager was recently reported to have developed the oddly named medical condition "popcorn lung" after vaping in secret ...

The macabre world of ancient Egyptian ritual sacrifice may have contributed to the domestication of cats, new research ...

As it whooshed over the Gale Crater on February 28, the orbiter snapped a picture of the rover, which appears as a tiny black ...

Earth won't remain habitable forever. According to some research, the aging Sun will render it lifeless in about 900 million ...

Remote cameras in Africa have captured the first images and video of wild chimpanzees eating and sharing fermented fruit that ...

Learning to control fire was a game-changer for ancient humans, who could use it to cook food, see at night, and endure cold ...