The momentous Paris climate change agreement is set to take effect on November 4, after an alliance of the planet’s largest polluters...
How wide a person yawns is an indication of how big a person’s brain is, scientists report. People who have larger brains...
A bridal shop in Akron, Ohio that was forced to close its doors due to an Ebola scare is suing a hospital...
Depression is one of the complaints women have about taking contraceptive pills, and new research confirms the fact. Dutch researchers have found...
Animals have been known to demonstrate their intelligence by responding to training. Apes and birds, for example, have shown that they can...
Roche got the green light from the US Food and Drug Administration for its rheumatoid arthritis medication Actemra’s breakthrough status. The Swiss...
Botox is not just useful for cosmetic surgery – doctors from Duke University have found that it works just as well as...
Homes where smokers live remain polluted with tobacco smoke for a long time, as much as six months after the smoker has...
AstraZeneca PLC confirmed that its prescription blood-thinning medication Brilinta did not show any benefits over standard treatments for peripheral artery disease in...
In the hit movie, The Martian, Matt Damon grows potatoes on the Red Planet using nothing more than his botany know-how and...
Politics extends inside the examination and emergency rooms, as it turns out. A new study from Yale University suggests that the quality...
If you want to get smarter, software companies and app developers promise that it’s easy. Just install their brain training games and...
A baby boy born to a Jordanian couple is the first to be born using a “three-parent” technique – DNA from three...
Thailand might begin testing all pregnant women for Zika, the country’s health ministry announced, following reports of its first known microcephaly cases...
Children who have been treated with alternative or complementary forms of medicine are less likely to receive a flu vaccine, a new...
Women who choose to undergo mastectomy and reconstruction in early the early stages of breast cancer are almost twice as likely to...
Netflix went offline for around two and a half hours Saturday afternoon, releasing an onslaught of social media action as users and...
People who want to look more beautiful should stand next to less attractive friends, researchers from the Royal Holloway, University of London...
A team of Czech and Polish divers have found the deepest underwater cave in the Czech Republic. Led by Polish Krzysztof Starnawski,...
As a species, humans seem to have inherited murderous traits via evolution and genetics, but civilization has tamed some of it out,...