A new year brings both hopes and anxieties. We want things to be better for ourselves and the people we love, but worry that they won't be, and imagine some of the things that might stand in the way. More broadly, we might worry about who's going t

XINGU INDIGENOUS PARK, Brazil (Reuters) - She is only 16 and from a remote Brazilian village on the Tapajos River in the heart of the Amazon, but her plea has been heard at the United Nations and the Vatican.

There’s no way of making current levels of consumption ‘environmentally friendly’, says author John Vidal

The Iranian people are, for the first time in decades, worried about whether the leaders who have been their captors are not also their protectors.

Vitamin D is essential for good health and particularly for fighting infections and keeping the microbes in the human gut healthy. But in winter it can be difficult to get enough.

Most people believe that modern day capitalism "does more harm than good in the world," according to a new survey timed to the start of the World Economic Forum in Davos.

4.2-billion-year-old dynamo would have protected Earth’s atmosphere

We know that the realm of quantum physics is science operating at a mind-bogglingly small scale, thus watching quantum interactions happen is always exciting. Now, physicists have managed to observe billions upon billions of entangled electrons pas

Based on research at White Pond near Elgin, South Carolina, archaeologists present new evidence of a controversial theory that suggests an extraterrestrial body crashing to Earth almost 13,000 years ago caused the extinction of many large animals and a probable…

US Central Command announced Tuesday that additional US troops who were serving at a base in Iraq that was struck by Iranian missiles earlier this month have been transported to an American medical facility in Germany.

Popular sports host Adel Ferdosipour, who recently witnessed his show being taken off the air by hardliners in the state TV, has now launched a new show on the internet.

An Iron Age tomb discovered in Italy was filled to the brim with weapons and a chariot.

It is part of a fly’s brain, but other brains will follow

A new study published by Harvard researchers in the JAMA Internal Medicine Journal found that not all carbs are equal.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon said on Friday that 34 service members had been diagnosed with traumatic brain injury following missile strikes by Iran on a base in Iraq earlier this month, a number higher than the military had previously announced.

Some of the remnant walls snaking through the forests of New York and New England from long-abandoned early American farms can be used as references to deduce the position of Earth’s magnetic field in previous centuries.

Human brains make the same observations across place, time and culture. I collect these phrases as others do stamps

Many think of dogs as loyal, love-filled companions, and cats as cute beasts that tolerate us - but we might have to rethink that a little. According to 2019 research, cats can get just as bonded to their human friends as dogs do.

Marco Island residents can earn $250 for letting owls live in their yards, and they don't even need to dig the holes themselves. What a hoot.

A video of a cat making a tough decision about starting a conflict has gone very, very viral and the whole thing makes you see why.