When they do happen, heart tumors can be quite serious and more aggressive than other cancers. A study analyzing more than ...

Deep in the ocean, bone-eating worms from the genus Osedax feast on the carcasses of whales, sucking up fats and proteins from the skeletons. And it looks like they've been doing so for a while now.

Children with a restrictive eating disorder show recognizable changes in brain structure, according to a new study.

Children whose mothers had higher vitamin D levels during pregnancy scored better on tests of memory, attention and ...

Research has also shown sleeping too long (meaning more than required for your age) is linked to health problems such as ...

For years, NASA has monitored a strange anomaly in Earth's magnetic field: a giant region of lower magnetic intensity in the ...

Despite what the movies tell us, dinosaurs probably didn't roar at their prey. It's more likely that they chirped like birds, based on a well-preserved new fossil with an intact voice box. A team of ...

In efforts to beat Alzheimer's disease, researchers are looking at existing drugs that could tackle the condition, and a new ...

A new simulation study shows that higher influenza vaccination rates protect both vaccinated and unvaccinated people from ...

Astronomers have found 11 unexpectedly cold hydrogen clouds hiding in the superheated turbulence of the Fermi Bubbles, in a ...

A pair of galaxies whose light has traveled for 8.3 billion years contains what astronomers believe is a supermassive black ...

The day before my thesis examination, my friend and radio astronomer Joe Callingham showed me an image we'd been awaiting for ...