We spend more than a third of our lives in bed - but that place can quickly blossom into a "botanical park" of bacteria and fungus, according to New York University microbiologist Philip Tierno.

In a series of tweets on Friday night, Elon Musk said he plans to launch his red Tesla Roadster to Mars in 2018.

For women with uterine factor infertility who want to be mothers, the calculus has always been heartbreakingly simple: No uterus means no pregnancy.

Japanese automobile giant Toyota is making some exciting moves in the realm of renewable, clean energy.

In the cold darkness of interstellar space, way past the Kuiper belt, Voyager 1 is continuing its journey out as far from Earth as it can go. Right now, it's over 20 billion kilometres (13 billion miles) from our planet - around 140 times the dista

When the fastest melting glacier in Antarctica surrenders itself to the ocean, the results can be pretty dramatic to watch – and, as scientists explain, worrying.

A priest in 18th century Spain found a clever niche to hide a secret message to the future - in the derriere of a hollow statue of Christ crucified, called Cristo del Miserere.

A series of late-stage drug trials are showing great promise for a completely new generation of migraine prevention drugs, which could hit the market as early as next year.

Unhealthy food, and the way it helps to fuel obesity, has been called the number one cause of poor health in America, but amid everything we hear about healthy weight ranges, there's been an XL-sized blip in the data.

The only way to truly get over a breakup is to give it time.

New research suggests the genetic coding behind skin pigmentation is more complicated than previously thought, involving a varying number of known and unknown genes depending on where in the world you're from.

Elon Musk's Boring Company, which was founded to create tunnels for an underground transportation system in Los Angeles, has released a map illustrating a proposed network for those tunnels.

When it comes to persuading parents in the United States who are hesitant about vaccinating their children, the public health messages often rely on facts and science to explain how immunisation not only protects those children but also shields oth

There are an awful lot of peculiar mysteries in space, made all the more enigmatic because we can't get a close, detailed look at them. One of the most mysterious is a phenomenon called high-velocity clouds - enormous, fast-moving clouds of ga

An exotic kind of particle so mysterious that it was suspected to be impossible has finally been identified by physicists – and not just once, but twice.

The animal kingdom is home to one remarkable fact after another.

There's something really viscerally satisfying about bursting a juicy pimple, even though science recommends that you really shouldn't… but there's a wrong way and, as it turns out, a much more wrong way: cutting it off with a woodworking tool.

It's the simplest trick in the pantry - pour sugar into a jar, run out of space, then tap the jar on a table to pack it down so you can fit in the rest of the bag.

When it struck, the contagion spread fiercely. The deadly severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak in South China in 2002 infected thousands, and ultimately killed nearly 800 people.

According to a new study, it's possible that all iron-based weapons and tools of the Bronze Age were forged using metal salvaged from meteorites. The finding has given experts a better insight into how these tools were created before humans worked

Plant scientist Joanne Chory has US$3 million more than she did last week.