Whether poop speeds through your gut like a bullet train or takes a more smell-the-roses approach could have more profound ...

Scientists have developed a nasal spray that reduces brain inflammation and restores lost memory function in mice.

The worrisome rise in colorectal cancer deaths in younger adults is concentrated in people with less education, suggesting ...

Although there are many variables in life, there's one metric by which our existence is strictly measured: time. We think of ...

The ancient DNA evidence of S. pyogenes, retrieved from the tooth of the Bolivian mummy, is highly fragmented and degraded.

Contrary to the name, most meteor showers are actually debris from comets. The Lyrids are the leftovers from an icy ball ...

This surprising finding goes against instinct and conventional wisdom, which suggests closing your eyes shuts out ...

Have you ever tasted a word, or seen colors while listening to music? If you have, you may be among the 1% to 4% of people ...

Entomologists at Cornell University estimate that East Lawn Cemetery is home to around 5.5 million individual regular miner ...

Tiny organisms on the ground – bacteria and fungi – have a "superpower" that allows them to reach up into the atmosphere and ...

The growth of the human population has not always been a smooth ride, but has been punctuated by some strange fluctuations.

Common human painkillers significantly change the way Norway lobsters respond to an unpleasant stimulus, scientists have ...