Researchers have linked spending more time playing video games with a boost in intelligence in children, which goes some way ...

Researchers from institutions across France have uncovered solid clinical evidence that supplements of vitamin D could be an ...

Einstein was aware of the effect but said in 1936 that "there is no hope of observing this phenomenon directly." But as ...

A pair of orcas terrorizing white sharks off the coast of South Africa may have captured the popular imagination, but their ...

A new study has identified a protein that appears to be essential for hair growth and hair follicle protection.

An exotic state of matter has been found lurking within a previous exotic state which had discovered in a magnetic compound ...

They say one person's trash is another's treasure, but a chunk of 'rock' used to keep a door open for decades is a treasure ...

Nearly two decades after suffering a brainstem stroke at the age of 30 that left her unable to speak, a woman in the US ...

Europe's CERN laboratory said on Monday that a detailed analysis revealed no technical obstacles to building the world's biggest particle collider, even as critics took issue with the "pharaonic" ...

An unusual pattern of tiny rock tunnels, first found in Namibia's desert roughly 15 years ago, could be the work of an unknown life form – a mysterious microorganism unlike any other described ...

One of the most consumed drugs in the US – and the most commonly taken analgesic worldwide – may do a lot more than simply ...

Floating about in microgravity might seem like a blissful reprieve for the human body's weight-bearing skeleton, but when ...