Over the past few days, people have been frantically searching for clues about whether asparagus causes cancer.

Give Tinder a break and take yourself on a date tonight.

This year's flu season is not messing around.

Imagine stepping into the night and seeing beams of light that shoot from the earth straight into the atmosphere. You might suspect alien spaceships, but light pillars are of this world.

The tumbling roll of the cigar-shaped 'Oumuamua could have been the result of a collision with another object.

Elon Musk's personal Tesla might have gotten all the headlines during SpaceX's historic rocket launch last week, but the Falcon Heavy also carried a second, secret payload almost nobody knew about.

Here's one to add to your list of things to be worried about at the beach: sea snails getting into your cuts.

In the latest instalment of 'don't panic over everything you see on social media', a viral photo of a heavily cultured petri dish has been doing the rounds, freaking people out about the use of hand dryers in public restrooms.

An ancient underwater volcano responsible for one of the largest known super-eruptions in history looks to be busy making silent, fiery preparations for its inevitable return.

Decisions are a part of life. At various times you may need to choose the best vacation spot, job candidate, babysitter, or place to live. Your most important decision may be figuring out your best romantic partner.

Part of what makes graphene so fantastically useful is its amazing thinness – it's just one atom thick.

The hunter has officially become the hunted. Last week, the body of a suspected poacher was found mauled by a pride of lions in South Africa.

SpotMini, Boston Dynamics's dog-like quadruped robot, is back, and it's learned a new trick.

Atomic clocks are capable of the most precise physical measurements humanity can make, but because they're so complex, they've been restricted to laboratory use - until now.

There's an isolated, unknown realm that's been cut off from light for so long there's no telling what could survive in its freezing, dark waters – but it looks like we won't have to wait too long to find out.

Roughly half a century ago, Cornell astronomer Frank Drake conducted Project Ozma, the first systematic SETI survey at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia.

If you're preoccupied with infidelity, new research may help set your mind at ease.

In the midst of one of the worst flu seasons in several years, a Japanese pharmaceutical company says it has an experimental drug that could make next winter a lot less sickly – not to mention safer.

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We have a problem. A serious one. At any moment, a life-threatening global pandemic could spring up and wipe out a significant amount of human life on this planet.

Satellite data measured across a 25-year period shows that not only are the seas rising, they're rising faster and faster – an acceleration that is on track to double the jump in sea levels by 2100 compared with a fixed increase year-on-year.