An analysis of a selection of different data sets representing changes in men's heights and weights reveals that as countries get richer and more healthy, the men in those countries get taller and ...

Australian radio host Kyle Sandilands announced on air yesterday that he has a brain aneurysm and needs urgent brain surgery.

Many of us have witnessed unusual and even anti-social behaviour at an airport or on a flight. These may range from benign ...

Two US biotech companies say the Food and Drug Administration has cleared them to conduct clinical trials of their gene-edited pig kidneys for human transplants.

Extreme heat will reach dangerous levels – even for younger people – across an area equivalent to the size of the United States if Earth's global warming hits two degrees Celsius, scientists warned on ...

Close to the summit of an underwater mountain west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a jagged landscape of towers rises from the gloom.

Arizona's magnificent Grand Canyon is painstaking result of the Colorado River's current wearing away the planet's surface ...

Hanging the washing out to dry in the garden has been a rare sight these last few months, with winter storms bringing ...

Cannabis is increasingly accessible in many countries, including several that have recently relaxed prohibition laws or legalized recreational use for adults.

The energy resolution limit (ERL) is a mix of parameters representing the economics of a quantum system within a sensor's ...

Postmortem brain samples collected last year contain considerably more microplastics than similar samples collected nearly a decade ago, a new study has found, indicating the tiny synthetic particles ...

Medical and recreational cannabis use is now legal in many parts of the world, but questions remain about its effect on ...