There's nothing quite like getting lost in an excellent book (or an article from your favorite science news site).

It turns out that a shocking number of mammals can glow in the dark. Shine a blacklight on a mob of Australian animals and ...

We know this for a fact: For the first time, direct chemical evidence of these drugs has been found, in residual traces left ...

Not only must your brain maintain a vast archive of existing memories, but it also has to keep track of new stuff each day.

Intermittent fasting is not only a useful tool for weight loss, it's also shown to have many benefits for metabolic health – ...

Recently discovered stone tools and circular structures on the Isle of Skye suggest humans from the Old Stone Age traveled ...

Researchers have found that a spear tip carved from bone, unearthed from Russia in 2003, is as old as 80,000 years.

"My only regret in life is that I didn't drink enough champagne," the English economist and philosopher John Maynard Keynes ...

Offering incredibly high temperatures, crushing pressure, and a thick mix of carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid, the atmosphere ...

An analysis of the data showed two key patterns: insomnia leading to stress, which then seems to trigger heavy drinking; and heavy drinking leading to depression, which then apparently triggers ...

For a while, in the Middle Ages, there was a real craze for trying to turn unassuming lead into pure, gleaming gold.

With cannabis now legal in much of the US, the focus is shifting from the ethics of using the drug to the health implications ...