"Sick building syndrome" is the general name for symptoms that can develop after spending extended periods of time in ...

The source of the shower is periodic comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle. Discovered by astronomers Lewis Swift and Horace Tuttle in July ...

A piece of space rock that crashed into a home in Atlanta, Georgia, had been zooming around in space for longer than Earth has existed, a recent analysis has found.

Theoretically, there's no limit to how massive a black hole could grow. In practical terms, other constraints, such as the ...

Humans may be living longer on average these days, but, even so, only a fraction of us will live to see our 100th birthday.

The large-scale deposits of salt around the Dead Sea, known as salt giants, are built up as the lake's highly saline water evaporates, and a new study of their formation has revealed some of the ...

They act as microbial sponges, collecting bacteria and fungi from soil, water, pet hair and dander, and the general dust of ...