If you smugly believe you’re right in a disagreement with a friend or colleague, a new study suggests why you may actually be ...

University of Essex researchers discovered they helped people drop twice as much weight when they ran for half an hour three ...

We get our DNA from our mom and our dad. But one notable exception has perplexed scientists for decades: Most animals, ...

Step aside tropical rainforests and coral reefs — the latest hotspot to offer awe-inspiring biodiversity lies no further than ...

When the Paris agreement on climate change was gavelled into being in December 2015, it briefly looked like that rarest of ...

When the Paris agreement on climate change was gavelled into being in December 2015, it briefly looked like that rarest of things: a political victory for climate activists and ...

I’ve talked a lot about scientific fraud in the past. Now, investigations have found even more widespread examples of falsified research. Not just in psychology and med ...

Researchers have discovered the most distant Milky-Way-like galaxy yet observed. Dubbed REBELS-25, this disc galaxy seems as ...

A federal judge last month handed a major victory to opponents of water fluoridation, capping a seven-year legal battle over ...

What do you imagine a good night’s sleep to be? Often when people come into our sleep clinic seeking treatment, they share ...

In a rare, longitudinal study, researchers from Aalto University and the University of Oulu tracked one person’s brain and ...

It’s the year 2050, and the world's population has just passed 9 billion people. Economic growth has lifted hundreds of ...