Hundreds of years ago, it was common for married couples among the European upper classes to have separate bedrooms.

Despite their reputation as 'killer' whales, orcas are known to lend a helping fin by sharing their food with humans.

In 2024, scientists stumbled upon a potential new treatment for hereditary-patterned baldness, the most common cause of hair ...

"How often do you poop?" might sound like a very personal question, but your answer could reveal quite a lot about your ...

Slow-motion earthquakes, as you might guess from the name, involve the release of pent-up geological energy over the course of days or weeks rather than minutes – and scientists have now recorded some ...

A planet that is snuggled up closely with its host star may be igniting colossal flares that strip it of its own mass.

An active ingredient in cough medicines since 1979 has shown promise as a treatment for neuropsychiatric symptoms in ...

How did Earth, alone among the Solar System's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

New research on Monday contradicted the commonly held idea that males dominate females among primates, revealing far more ...

For roughly one in every hundred people, food containing even the smallest amounts of gluten can deliver a gutful of hurt and ...

Sure, BMI is simple and easy to compute, but it comes with some serious limitations. People who are muscular, for instance, can sometimes be deemed overweight or obese. And on the flip side, those who ...

The Vera C.Rubin's first mission is a 10-year survey of the southern sky called the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). Every few days, it will observe the entire sky, recording each section ...