A fear of needles is a common reason for avoiding vaccines, even among many adults. Now researchers have come up with a ...

Octopuses can be fooled into thinking a fake arm is actually their own. When scientists in Japan pinched an artificial ...

The alchemist's dream is to make gold from common metals, but can this be done? The physics needed to explain how to change ...

However, giving birth, and looking after a newborn, would be far more difficult in zero gravity. After all, in space, nothing ...

The devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic may have left a significant mark on our brains, even if we didn't get sick.

The most commonly taken analgesic worldwide – and one of the most consumed drugs in the US – could be doing a lot more than ...

Over the years, the guidance on eating eggs has been wildly inconsistent, with some studies suggesting that the popular ...

Would you dab perfume on a six-month-old? Paint their tiny nails with polish that contains formaldehyde? Dust bronzer onto their cheeks? An investigation by the Times has found that babies and ...

Pregnant mice exposed to the base ingredient of most vape 'juices' develop babies with smaller, narrower skulls, a new study ...

Despite what the movies tell us, dinosaurs probably didn't roar at their prey. It's more likely that they chirped like birds, ...

For years, NASA has monitored a strange anomaly in Earth's magnetic field: a giant region of lower magnetic intensity in the ...

When they do happen, heart tumors can be quite serious and more aggressive than other cancers. A study analyzing more than ...