We know sleep quality is vital for good health, that adolescence is an important time for brain development, and that teens ...

We all need a way to get along in this wild, wicked world, and a rare insect found only on a mountainside on O'ahu has found ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

On the outskirts of the Milky Way, one of the rarest kinds of stars in the galaxy has just become even more mysterious than ...