Pharmaceutical company Allergan issued a US-wide recall Tuesday for nearly 170,000 sample packs of the birth control Taytulla after a packaging error caused pills to be placed in the wrong order, a mistake that it said could lead to unintended preg

A rare earth element that doesn't get much mention could become the key to upgrading atomic clocks to become even more accurate. This could help us explore space and track satellites, and even keep the world's time zones in sync.

Scientists have produced the first human corneas to be 3D-printed in a lab, showing how we could potentially generate this vital bit of anatomy ourselves – and save millions of people from blindness related to corneal damage along the way.

Roseanne Barr has claimed that she was under the influence of the drug Ambien when she posted her already infamous racist tweet (since removed). But what do we know about Ambien and its side effects?

It's one of the oldest, weather-worn clichés: that people who wear glasses are somehow smarter than those who don't. It's ridiculous, unfounded, and – it turns out – actually true.

In 2015, a psychologist in Italy figured out how to induce a drug-free altered state of consciousness by asking 20 volunteers to sit and stare into each other's eyes for 10 minutes straight.

Last month, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced that Australia would be allocating over $500 million Australian dollars (or $379 million USD) in a last-ditch attempt to save the Great Barrier Reef.

Wow.

The exact causes of schizophrenia are veiled in mystery, but scientists have been trying to work out whether it could develop during pregnancy. Now a powerful new study has pointed to the mum's placenta as a key place to look - and it could be the

Around 7,000 years ago - all the way back in the Neolithic - something really peculiar happened to human genetic diversity. Over the next 2,000 years, and seen across Africa, Europe and Asia, the genetic diversity of the Y chromosome collapsed, bec

Powering cold, hard mechanics with muscle tissue is a promising idea that so far hasn't delivered awe-inspiring results.

Last year, 'declassified' videos of numerous UFO encounters and reports of a top secret Pentagon program to investigate them made headlines around the world.

The mystery is over in thankfully very short order and we've got our Fallout announcement.

Next week at WWDC we get to wake up to the excitement of fresh news on what the next big Apple software release, iOS 12, will bring to our iPhones, iPads and Apple TVs.

The early-morning blast on Mother's Day was big enough to stop nature itself, if only for a moment.

Off the coast of Hawaii, nearly a kilometre beneath the waves, an active volcano bubbles, spewing heat from beneath the seabed. This is the Lō'ihi Seamount, and NASA is studying it in the hopes of learning more about extraterrestrial life.

20 years ago, Time Magazine put a goateed man and some plants on its cover, declaring a breed of rice would save the world's children.

Human brains are some of the biggest in nature, but it's not altogether clear why that is. A pair of studies are now suggesting a new hypothesis – that a family of genes responsible for building up brain matter has given our endocranial volume (E

By Earth's standards, you could hardly imagine a stranger world than frigid, tiny Pluto. It resides in the far corner of the Solar System at an average of about 4 billion miles from the sun.

For several weeks Hawaii's Kīlauea volcano has been shooting rocks, ash, and plumes of heated gas into the sky. Sooner or later all this activity was bound to have some sort of effect on the local weather.