Unemployment in the EU is at a historical low of around 6%, half the level of ten years ago. In the UK, it is even lower, at ...

While the study does not provide conclusive proof that the shingles vaccine leads to healthier aging outcomes, the findings add to several other observational studies linking the vaccine to widespread ...

The most commonly taken analgesic worldwide – and one of the most consumed drugs in the US – could be doing a lot more than ...

The dark bowels of a limestone cave on Muna Island, off the coast of Sulawesi in Indonesia, just yielded an ancient secret.

Our planet has experienced dramatic climate shifts throughout its history, oscillating between freezing "icehouse" periods ...

A team of scientists announced Tuesday they have developed new deep-sea landers specifically to test their contentious ...

Despite its importance, the heart is one of the few tissues in the human body that can't repair damage very well – or at ...

A NASA astronaut who was stuck in space for nine months because of problems with her spacecraft has retired after 27 years of service, the space agency said Tuesday.

The space station is set up as well as it can be for medical emergencies, said NASA's Zena Cardman, who commanded the crew's early return flight with SpaceX. She said NASA "made all the right ...

A metric that looks beyond height and weight to underlying biological markers of metabolic health is providing revised ...

Cows can now be counted among the animals shown to use tools deliberately – and to adapt them to different tasks.

A quantum state of matter has appeared in a material where physicists thought it would be impossible, forcing a rethink on ...