Since mindfulness is something you can practice at home for free, it often sounds like the perfect tonic for stress and ...

Space junk returning to the Earth is introducing metal pollution to the pristine upper atmosphere as it burns up on re-entry, ...

Thousands of marks carved into Paleolithic artifacts suggest that early modern humans were using structured symbols to communicate as far back as 40,000 years ago, a detailed analysis has found.

Cases of myopia, or short-sightedness, are increasing rapidly around the world, and a new study suggests that our modern tendency to spend more time indoors could be a key driving factor.

At first, newly diagnosed cancer patients show no signs of criminality, the study found. Crime rates actually decrease in the first year after diagnosis, which is plausible considering many of those ...

Osteoarthritis is a common degenerative joint disease that causes pain, stiffness, and swelling and reduces your range of ...

Scientists have many theories about how Earth's raw materials turned into living cells, but a new proposal is particularly slimy.

Yet there is clear evidence that adults benefit from playfulness just as children do. Research shows that adults who engage ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) – Grounded until at least April, NASA's giant Moon rocket is headed back to the hangar this week for more repairs before astronauts climb aboard. The space agency said Sunday ...

New techniques to detect Y chromosome genes show frequent loss of the Y in tissues of older men. The increase with age is clear: 40% of 60-year-old men show loss of Y, but 57% of 90-year-olds.

Researchers have identified a period of sluggish magnetic field flipping for planet Earth, some 40 million years ago – ...

Deep inside the Greenland ice sheet, radar images have revealed strange, plume-like structures distorting the layering ...