Our bones don't actually feel the cold as we sense it. They lack the same temperature-sensitive receptors that we have in our ...

Continuous sleep is a modern habit, not an evolutionary constant, which helps explain why many of us still wake at 3 am and wonder if something's wrong.

The first solar eclipse of the year will grace Antarctica, and only a lucky few will get to bask – or waddle – in its glow.

In an early clinical trial, a single dose of a short-acting psychedelic drug led to rapid improvement in people with major ...

We've seen dream engineering in blockbuster movies like Christopher Nolan's Inception, and a new study shows that the science-fiction-style idea may be much closer to science fact than we realized.

Researchers have found compelling evidence that depression points to the development of Parkinson's disease or Lewy body ...

Weight-loss injections have rapidly moved from specialist clinics to social media feeds and high-street pharmacies.

Sea-level rise is the result of increased greenhouse gases in our atmosphere, which trap heat that would otherwise be reflected back into space. The ocean absorbs much of that heat, and as it does, ...

The soothing sounds of pink noise, designed to obscure outside clamor and lull listeners into sleep, may not be so innocuous, ...

Elite sport often looks like a test of speed, strength, and technical skill. Yet some of the most decisive moments in ...

That left only three crew members to keep the place running – one American and two Russians – prompting NASA to pause ...

The DNA damage from ionizing radiation (IR) erupting from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986 is showing up in the ...