Flushing out your nasal cavity is a common method for clearing sinuses, but it could also be a vector for deadly, brain-eating amoeba. At least, that's what can happen if you don't carefully follow the instructions, as a new case report has made al

When it comes to prodding the very boundaries of the Solar System we all reside in, astronomers have had a notoriously tricky time of figuring out where those edges truly lie.

Wasps are dangerous little insects. They're aggressive as heck, and being stung can be on a spectrum from incredibly painful to fatal.

The island nation of Mauritius has little in the way of natural resources - historically, it's depended on imported petroleum to generate electricity.

It's the most populous city in Western Asia, and it's sinking into the ground at an alarming rate.

About 11 billion miles from Earth, a NASA probe has broken another record for humanity.

Every 5.4 years, the comet 46P/Wirtanen orbits the Sun, swinging through Earth's skies on its way. This year, its visit is in December, and we're going to be able to see it - in fact, it's visible in the sky now if you have binoculars or a telescop

A drought scorched the Great Plains, causing wildfires and US$2.5 billion in agriculture losses. Catastrophic floods submerged more than a third of Bangladesh. Record-shattering heat waves killed scores of people in Europe and China.

Being in space can have weird and sometimes harmful effects on the human body, and we'll have to work through those issues if we're to make it out to Mars and beyond, and stay healthy.

Around 252 million years ago, Earth experienced catastrophic devastation - an extinction event so severe that it wiped out almost all of the life on Earth.

A lone spacecraft is hovering 12 miles above the surface of a tiny asteroid millions of miles away, closely examining its surface. And it just sent back its first readings.

Earth is not the home you think it is. Far below the scant surface spaces we inhabit, the planet is teeming with an incredibly vast and deep 'dark biosphere' of subterranean lifeforms that scientists are only just beginning to comprehend.

Human activity has shifted the chemical composition of our waterways. Now, it's beginning to corrode our freshwater supply.

Last year, uptake of home DNA tests sailed into the stratosphere, giving millions of people around the world a whole new level of insight into the ways their genes work, and helping predict their genetic risk for disease.

On January 2, 2018, Kirstin Blaise Lobato, who was charged and convicted of murder, walked free from a Nevada prison due entirely to forensic entomology.

Until this precise moment in his nearly decade-long career, Stephen Curry has remained gleefully free of controversy.

Even the tiniest organisms can make it to the big leagues. The number one fastest animal movement in the world now belongs to an ant no bigger than the tip of your finger.

You probably don't stop to think about this often, but right after the birth of the Universe, matter was not in the form we recognise today.

To ease the sting of a paper cut, most of us will instinctively pop the afflicted finger in the mouth and suck for a moment or two. We rub barked shins, cool blistered skin, and shake a crushed hand. And it might represent a completely different ki

Throughout Earth's history, one question rises, again and again: what were the factors that killed off a species or a population of animals?

People don't like dust. Nor should they. This endless accumulation of dead skin, hair, bugs, soil, animal fur, and whatever else - it gets everywhere. But it looks like that's not even the worst part.