A planet that is snuggled up closely with its host star may be igniting colossal flares that strip it of its own mass.

An active ingredient in cough medicines since 1979 has shown promise as a treatment for neuropsychiatric symptoms in ...

How did Earth, alone among the Solar System's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

New research on Monday contradicted the commonly held idea that males dominate females among primates, revealing far more ...

For roughly one in every hundred people, food containing even the smallest amounts of gluten can deliver a gutful of hurt and ...

For years, scientists have believed that inflammation inevitably increases with age, quietly fuelling diseases like heart ...

At its peak some 3,000 years ago, the ancient Mesopotamian city of Babylon was the largest metropolis on Earth.

Though it's now clear humans continue to grow new brain cells throughout their entire lives, debate persists over whether ...

We know that processed meat isn't particularly good for us, having already been linked to dementia, diabetes, and cancer, but ...

Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...

The main polyphenols in pomegranate belong to a group called ellagitannins, a type of polyphenol that can reach the colon ...

According to the new model, the Universe continues expanding but at a gradually slowing rate until reaching maximum size, ...