Already in quarantine to avoid germs, Commander Reid Wiseman and his crew will be the first people to launch to the moon ...

Modern mammals have unique hearing abilities, able to sense a broad range of volumes and frequencies using middle-ear ...

But as a professor of religious studies who has spent years examining how mindfulness is defined and practiced across ...

An investigation by researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in the US has filled in a missing link between the toxic build-up of proteins in the neurodegenerative condition ...

Scientists on a research vessel off the central California coast spotted a waved albatross, marking just the second recorded ...

Scientists in Japan have discovered a previously unknown giant virus, offering new insight into this enigmatic category of ...

Scientists have made some intriguing parasite discoveries in an accidental back-of-the-pantry natural history museum. Canned salmon, well past its prime, has preserved decades of Alaskan marine ...

Adrenaline increases the "alertness" of the nervous system, meaning it's ready to trigger muscle contraction. It also increases the amount of blood flow and changes the tension of the muscles, which, ...

A miscarriage can occur for a variety of reasons, but chromosomal abnormalities are a common factor. About half of all known miscarriages in the first or second trimester result from fetuses ...

People who are exposed to certain forever chemicals may be at greater risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS), according to new research.

Splinters are everyday injuries commonly involving a small shard of wood, glass, metal, plastic, or a thorn that becomes embedded in the skin and the soft tissue underneath.

Manipulating how much carbon dioxide a person breathes can crank up the brain's 'sewage system', researchers have found.