Hundreds of people in the US so far have recently developed a specific type of food poisoning that's causing watery and ...

His name is Neil the seal, and this year, he's gotten absolutely enormous - in size and in popularity. In case you haven't ...

The chronic loss of joint cartilage known as osteoarthritis causes pain and bone decay for hundreds of millions of people ...

We've all heard of menopause: a supposedly terminal moment for the female reproductive system, in which the ovaries stop ...

Introducing tattoo pigment into the skin triggers an immune response, and that ink obviously sticks around – though it doesn't always stay put. Research shows that particles of tattoo ink can enter ...

Of all the strange worlds in our Milky Way galaxy, some of the most mysterious are those hanging around white dwarf stars.

In fact, Blood Falls is the result of slowly oozing, iron-rich saltwater that's been trapped beneath the northern end of the ...

A tank of the purest water, buried under kilometers of rock in Ontario, Canada, flashed as a barely detectable particle slammed through its molecules.

The Chernobyl exclusion zone may be off-limits to humans, but that doesn't mean every form of life finds the conditions ...

A massive structure detected in the distant Universe is defying our understanding of how the Universe evolved.

The standard approach to satellite imagery is to snap huge batches of pictures and beam them back to Earth, where they can be ...

For more than 400 years, an oil painting titled Air by Flemish master Jan Brueghel the Elder has been hiding a scientific ...