Recent shifts in Earth's magnetic field have human fingerprints all over them. While it is normal for our planet's magnetic ...

Researchers are on firmer ground when it comes to the physiological impacts of increased UV radiation. With the weakened magnetic field, more harmful radiation would have reached Earth's surface, ...

A clock built by a team led by researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been estimated to ...

Have you ever gone to the optometrist for an eye test and were told your eye was shaped like a football? Or perhaps you've ...

A tomato plant emitting screams of distress outside the range of human hearing makes a terrible place for a moth to deposit its babies.

The word "plague" is often used to refer to any major disease epidemic or pandemic, or even to other undesirable events, such ...

According to new research, relying on ants as a sole food source has evolved at least 12 times in mammals since the reign of ...

In April, when Yellowstone National Park geologists made their first visit this year to the Norris Geyser Basin, they ...

Despite the powerful telescopes that modern astronomers have to work with, the distant reaches of the Solar System are still ...

Blindness, pneumonia, severe diarrhoea and even death – measles virus infections, especially in children, can have ...

What's more, there were long-lasting changes in the mice's gut bacteria, changing their internal metabolism. Crucially, when ...

Insomnia is the most common sleep disorder, with as many as a third of adults reporting problems with it. A new study ...