If a lawsuit currently being evaluated by a California court goes a certain way, coffee shops and coffee-selling gas stations may be forced post labels about potential cancer-causing chemicals.

Scientists have developed a new blood test where a tiny drop of blood could be enough to predict the onset of Alzheimer's – and that would mean better care and preventative measures could be taken much earlier.

The rise of smartphones and smart wearables means our days are more trackable than ever before, from the number of steps we take to the places we visit. Amazon seems very keen on the concept, having applied for a patent to keep very close tabs on i

NASA confirmed an incredible discovery Tuesday - that an amateur radio astronomer, on the hunt for a classified government satellite, stumbled instead upon signals from a spacecraft that had been thought lost 12 years earlier, raising hope that NAS

Pyramids peek above the canopy of the Guatemalan jungle in Central America, but the roots of the ruins run a lot deeper than it looks.

The 2,000 year old Nazca Lines are the world's best known example of geoglyphs – and they're beautiful. Huge symbols of monkeys, fish, and other animals up to hundreds of metres long - preserved for so long we don't know what they were there for.

Saying our Universe is a big place is a bit of an understatement. And with recent advances in our understanding of the effects of dark matter and black holes on the formation of galaxies, it's surprisingly dynamic.

Anybody who has grappled with weight loss knows that even once the kilos come off, it can be hard to keep them off in the long term.

A galaxy called Centaurus A has been harbouring a strange secret. Researchers have found a plane of dwarf galaxies orbiting it on a plane - much like planets do around stars, and even stars around galactic cores.

20 July 1969 was an unforgettable date in human history - the day Apollo 11 astronauts landed on the surface of the Moon, taking one small step for humans, and one giant leap for humankind.

UK native James Morgan was studying photography in London when he read about a group of seafaring Southeast Asian nomads who had survived the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami with almost no casualties.

One of the oldest and most fundamental questions in biochemistry is why the 20 amino acids that support life are all needed, when the original core of 13 would do – and quantum chemistry might have just provided us with the answer.

Four years ago, Chelsea fell head first onto the hardwood floor at her college. She had a seizure and stopped breathing, causing an anoxic injury – when the brain is damaged from not receiving enough oxygen.

Since the Universe is big and old, and life on Earth didn't take relatively long to evolve, then life should be everywhere in the Universe.

In our increasingly busy lives, sleep can feel pretty unproductive. But just because you're not awake, doesn't mean stuff isn't happening.

Nigel, a handsome gannet bird who lived on a desolate island off the coast of New Zealand, died suddenly this week.

Arvind Subramanian, Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India, has issued a prediction that at least one or two of the country's states will implement an Indian universal basic income within the next two years.

In a hugely detailed and comprehensive new study, researchers have painted a picture of how around a tenth of Earth's surface suddenly became covered in roaring fires at a point some 12,800 years ago.

The 2,400-year-old skulls faced several directions, and the 10 dirt-brown, pre-Aztec skeletons fanned out to the edges of an area resembling the cosmic spiral of the Milky Way. Nothing like it has been found before.