Not only must your brain maintain a vast archive of existing memories, but it also has to keep track of new stuff each day.

We know this for a fact: For the first time, direct chemical evidence of these drugs has been found, in residual traces left ...

It turns out that a shocking number of mammals can glow in the dark. Shine a blacklight on a mob of Australian animals and ...

Intermittent fasting is not only a useful tool for weight loss, it's also shown to have many benefits for metabolic health – ...

There's nothing quite like getting lost in an excellent book (or an article from your favorite science news site).

"My only regret in life is that I didn't drink enough champagne," the English economist and philosopher John Maynard Keynes ...

Recently discovered stone tools and circular structures on the Isle of Skye suggest humans from the Old Stone Age traveled ...

An analysis of the data showed two key patterns: insomnia leading to stress, which then seems to trigger heavy drinking; and heavy drinking leading to depression, which then apparently triggers ...

Researchers have found that a spear tip carved from bone, unearthed from Russia in 2003, is as old as 80,000 years.

If this supernova is lopsided, the neutron star can be booted unceremoniously across the galaxy at high speeds, something ...

Offering incredibly high temperatures, crushing pressure, and a thick mix of carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid, the atmosphere ...

Scientists have sequenced the genome of one of the rarest animals in the world: the 'Asian unicorn', which hasn't been seen ...