Drinks including water, soda, beer and wine sold in glass bottles contain more microplastics than those in plastic bottles, ...

Although orcas around the world are all categorized as a single species, they don't really behave as one. Distinct ...

Infection with a common parasite can seriously disrupt the brain function of intermediate hosts – potentially including ...

The smarter you are, the more your brain is in sync with its own secret rhythm, a new study has found.

The observatory telescope is embarking on a 10-year survey of the southern sky called the Legacy Survey of Space and Time ...

Human sperm can swim through surprisingly viscous fluids with ease – and they seemingly defy Newton's third law of motion to ...

A dozen volunteers with severe type 1 diabetes showed clear improvements in their condition 12 months after receiving a ...

A French woman from the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe has been identified as the only known carrier of a new blood type, ...

Summer is just getting started, and millions of people are under heat advisories as a major heat wave spreads across large ...

Three newly-discovered species of deep sea 'spiders' farm methane-eating bacteria on their own bodies in a symbiosis quite ...

Next month it will have been 80 years since the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were devastated by nuclear attacks.