The two-toned whinnies could help horses convey multiple messages at the same time. The differently pitched neighs may help them express a more complex range of feelings when socializing, said study ...

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

A few glasses of alcohol are enough to start fragmenting the way the brain works, leading to more localized information processing and reduced brain-wide communication, a new study has discovered.

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.

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.

One of the largest stars known in the Universe has done something strange – and scientists are debating what it means.

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

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

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 ...

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

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

A new Spinosaurus species has been unearthed from the Saharan desert, and its skull bears a magnificent crest never seen ...