The macabre world of ancient Egyptian ritual sacrifice may have contributed to the domestication of cats, new research ...

An accurate diagnosis of ADHD is crucial in bringing clarity and the right support to people who need it, but current ...

Large kangaroos today roam long distances across the outback, often surviving droughts by moving in mobs to find new food ...

Remote cameras in Africa have captured the first images and video of wild chimpanzees eating and sharing fermented fruit that ...

Earth won't remain habitable forever. According to some research, the aging Sun will render it lifeless in about 900 million ...

To tattoo a tardigrade, Zhao and his colleagues adapted a nanofabrication technique called ice lithography. This is a form of ...

As it whooshed over the Gale Crater on February 28, the orbiter snapped a picture of the rover, which appears as a tiny black speck amid the paler Martian sands. The space agency suggests the image ...

A mutation that helps insects survive our chemical onslaught has been found in one of the worst places imaginable: the genome of the common bed bug.

While dementia is much more common in older adults, hundreds of thousands of people are diagnosed with young-onset dementia ...

Ever since its formation around 4.5 billion years ago, Earth's rotation has been gradually slowing down, and its days have ...

Learning to control fire was a game-changer for ancient humans, who could use it to cook food, see at night, and endure cold ...

Dogs are sociable, enthusiastic and widely used to comfort people in settings like hospitals, schools and care homes.