Determining the passage of time in our world of ticking clocks and oscillating pendulums is a simple case of counting the ...

A rare and potentially fatal skin infection with nightmarish outcomes may soon have a cure.

While humans have been making their mark on the surfaces of this Earth for at least tens of thousands of years, it's ...

Uranus is much further away from the Sun than Earth is, almost 3 billion km, while Earth is only about 228 million km from ...

The hypertension drug rilmenidine has been shown to slow down aging in worms, an effect that in humans could hypothetically ...

Well, the verdict is in. The Moon is not made of green cheese after all.

Stem cells are special in the way they can keep on replicating, and turn themselves into many other types of cell.

By phasing out sugar, we could spare land that could be rewilded and stock up on carbon. This is especially important in ...

But only one follicle – the largest and most well-developed – usually reaches ovulation, where the follicle ruptures like a ...

Earlier this year, a caver was poring over satellite images of the Nullarbor Plain when he came across something unexpected: ...

BBC presenter Naga Munchetty revealed last year that she suffers from adenomyosis, a chronic condition that affects the ...

Evidence is growing that Mars was once sloshy and wet, draped with lakes and oceans, which lapped at shorelines and deposited ...