Traces of a previously unknown group of people, genetically distinct from their neighbors, have persisted for at least 8,000 years in the central Southern Cone of South America, and Argentina in ...

A resident of Washington state has died after contracting a rare strain of bird flu previously only reported in animals, state health officials said – the second human fatality linked to the virus in ...

Metformin has been prescribed to people with type 2 diabetes to manage blood sugar for more than 60 years, but scientists ...

A black seed, long used in cooking and traditional medicine, has shown promise in lowering cholesterol levels in a new ...

Although we humans have changed our environment in many ways during the past few thousand years, we are still changed by ...

Scientists have just discovered an incredible superpower hidden away in the tissues of the fern Blechnum orientale, a plant ...

Geoscientists have solved an age-old mystery of oceanic volcanism and plate tectonics, explaining why some islands contain so much continental material despite their distance from continental plates.

Our findings show that when we see someone being touched, our brains quickly interpret what that touch might feel like. This ...

Rolling out a yoga mat and flowing with your breath could be one of the best exercises for improving sleep in the long run.

Regular injections could soon be a thing of the past for two different ailments, as a new pill arises as an alternative to ...

A powerful new treatment has emerged in efforts to reduce high cholesterol levels and the associated risk of heart health ...

One of the strangest mysteries about our Earth is the presence of two dense, giant blobs inexplicably clustered above the ...