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

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.

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 ...

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

A new investigation of ancient horned animal skulls found in Spain's Des-Cubierta Cave deepens the mystery of when and why Neanderthals put them there.

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

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.

A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass ...

Immediately after the Big Bang boomed, the Universe was a trillion-degree 'soup' of unimaginably dense plasma.

A new Alzheimer's study has produced a first-of-its-kind genetic map, which could provide vital insights into the ...