A bad day and a dead end for a Cretaceous ant has parlayed into some pretty spectacular science some 113 million years later.

So while it's true that brown rice has more arsenic than white rice, not eating brown rice (or other whole grains) may pose a ...

An unprecedented coral bleaching episode has spread to 84 percent of the world's reefs in an unfolding human-caused crisis ...

There are a lot of things in Earth's night sky, and every now and again, they line up in such a way to give us all a little ...

This week brings the Hubble Space Telescope's 35th birthday – but instead of getting presents, the Hubble team is giving out ...

When it comes to eating meat, it sometimes seems impossible to strike a balance between doing the right thing for your body, ...

For most humans who have breathed Earth's air over the course of history, our deaths have disappeared from record, as ...

There was an average of 6.9 years' worth of general health data for each participant included in the study. Participants had worn wrist accelerometers for seven days to estimate their physical ...

Adaptive deep brain stimulation was approved earlier this year by the US and European health authorities. It involves a computer interpreting brain activity and deciding whether to adjust the ...

Gold dust in eyes might seem like an unusual therapy – but a new mouse study in the US shows the approach could potentially ...

Tiny, microscopic bits of plastic have been found almost everywhere researchers look – including throughout the human body.

For the first time, humans might have glimpsed a rainbow of color that lies just beyond our sight – including a "blue-green ...