It's no secret: when we savour a delicious piece of fish or a platter of seafood, we're not just consuming valuable omega-3s ...

Participants also completed a standard set of tests that measure concentration, thinking speed, and the ability to plan and ...

A 2,200-year-old ceramic drinking vessel has confirmed what archaeologists have long suspected: some ancient Egyptians were ...

Calculations intended to feel out the interactions between light and the material that produces it may inadvertently describe ...

When the latest cargo 'shipment' docked at the International Space Station (ISS) this weekend, it delivered more than astronauts had bargained for.

Majestic. Thunderous. Powerful. Their mighty tread and sonorous cries once reverberated across our planet. And the rise of ...

Research shows that galaxies form inside gigantic haloes of dark matter, the elusive substance that doesn't interact with ...

Our records of the human genome may still be missing tens of thousands of 'dark' genes. These hard-to-detect sequences of ...

Fewer people contracted HIV last year than at any point since the rise of the disease in the late 1980s, the United Nations ...

The eyes can reveal a lot about the health of our brain. Indeed, problems with the eyes can be one of the earliest signs of ...

A supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the US has just pulled off the largest astrophysical simulation of the ...

Although Hubble's view of the Sombrero Galaxy is stunning, it is bound by the limits of the optical spectrum. In the Hubble ...