How we classify cancer and spot it in its earliest stages could need an urgent rethink: researchers have found that even some ...

Sadly, we know that microplastics are getting everywhere, including our drinking water – but researchers have developed a new ...

The plot has just thickened in the mystery tale about the unseen mass skulking inside the largest cluster of stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

Aging brings two opposing trends in cancer risk: first, the risk climbs in our 60s and 70s, as decades of genetic mutations ...

Around one third of Australian households live with at least one cat, yet surveys tell us the cats' needs are not being met.

Many of the fluctuations in the length of Earth's day have known causes. But on scales of decades to millennia, scientists ...

With a surface area more than twice that of Greater London's, A23a is the biggest iceberg on the planet, having calved from ...

They say one's trash is another's treasure, but a chunk of 'rock' used to keep a door open for decades is a treasure by ...

It's time to recalibrate the navigation systems on ships, airplanes, and (given the time of year) Santa's sleigh: the ...

As the global population ages, more of us face frightening cognitive decline, personally or in our loved ones.

Ancient sheep buried in an elite grave in Egypt show the oldest evidence of humans deliberately deforming the horns of ...

Here's where mistletoe becomes an unexpected hero. Scientists have discovered that extracts from mistletoe can stimulate the ...