It is true that sewing needles have not been definitively linked to Neanderthals. The first needles documented in Eurasia are ...

In cases of a condition called jaundice, a compound called bilirubin turns a person's skin and eyes yellow. It's usually a ...

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Despite the profound human, social and economic costs of alcohol abuse, existing treatments have failed to provide meaningful ...

While it's very true that, as the great Ian Malcolm once said, "life finds a way," that way can sometimes veer quite far off ...

New research suggests that cannabis use is linked to twice the risk of death from cardiovascular disease, and is also ...

In 2018, members of a New Zealand research team visited the McMurdo ice shelf in east Antarctica, home to several such pools, ...

A NASA mission to observe the activity of the solar wind has returned its first images of giant coronal mass ejections (CMEs) ...

Ozempic and other semaglutide medications have been working wonders in terms of shedding pounds for many people, but a new ...

Well, the verdict is in. The Moon is not made of green cheese after all.

A 146,000-year-old skull known as the 'dragon man', thought to be the sole representative of an ancient human species, ...

When you think about ticks, you might picture nightmarish little parasites, stalking you on weekend hikes or afternoons in ...