Diamonds are a girl’s best friend, as the infamous song goes, but they’re also a scientist’s. There has been a long-standing belief...
A woman from London has just made medical history by having her ovary removed and frozen when she was nine years old,...
The United Kingdom has become the first country where it’s legal to create a three-parent baby using healthy DNA from donors to...
Thousands of pilots on commercial flights – over one in 10 – may be clinically depressed, even suicidal. Unfortunately, most of them...
Another study adds weight to recent information on the mental state of women who undergo an abortion. Researchers find that women who...
An off-duty firefighter in North Carolina thought quickly on his feet, saving the lives of dozens of residents from deadly carbon monoxide...
President Barack Obama signed the 21st Century Cures Act bill into law legislation, on a “bittersweet day” on the White House campus....
The sudden surge in popularity of the augmented reality game Pokemon Go a few months ago was met with a rising concern...
A new study finds that one in six American adults takes psychiatric drugs to cope with mental health conditions like depression, anxiety...
A survey says that American teenagers are on their best behavior in 40 years – they’re drinking and smoking less, and are...
The volume of methane in the atmosphere is rising quickly, alarming scientists. After remaining relatively stagnant in the 2000s, levels of concentration...
Getting behind the wheel when sleepy has long been known to be deadly. A new report adds weight to that, finding that...
Trust Japan to come up with a practical space mission: cleaning up the junk circling the Earth’s orbit. A cargo ship was...
The Department of Veterans Affairs Administrative Investigation Board reports that staff members at the Bay Pines VA hospital intentionally left the body...
Monkeys have the necessary anatomy to produce the sounds of human speech, but lack the brain connections that humans use to make...
A system hat cools the scalp of breast cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy has helped prevent hair loss, researchers say. Dr. Julie Rani...
Giraffes, the world’s tallest land mammals and a majestic sight in zoos and reserves everywhere, are being threatened with extinction because of...
Scientists have made an astounding discovery: the tail of a tiny feathered dinosaur that is 99 million years old preserved in a...
According to federal data, the overall US death rate had gone up for the first time in 10 years, according to an...
A 69-year-old man in Florida died, supposedly as a result of being forced to clean Walgreens bathroom that store employees said he...