For those of you who struggle to drink the advised eight glasses of water a day, we've got good news: that 'rule' doesn't have to apply to everyone.

The sperm's tail is perhaps one of the most iconic structures among all of the cells in the human body, so it's odd to think there are still some things we don't know about it.

In one of the scariest moments in the movie Jurassic Park, a pair of intelligent Velociraptors, brought back to Earth by man's hubris, defy an assumption about their limitations: They open a kitchen door.

Diets have always gone through fads. The grapefruit diet, Atkins, paleo, Whole30 - like a many-headed weight-loss hydra, just as soon as one falls out of favor, another rises in its place.

For those of you who struggle to drink the advised eight glasses of water a day, we've got good news: that 'rule' doesn't have to apply to everyone.

Even with all the photos that have been taken of space, there are still new things to be seen.

Scientists have been rejuvenating old mice with infusions of not just the blood of younger mice, but even blood from teenage human beings - and we finally have our first clues on why this strange technique works.

If you were to travel all the way to the northwest tip of a remote peninsula along the northwest coastline of rural Alaska, you'd find an isolated town sitting around 50 kilometres (31 miles) north of the Arctic Circle.

Over the millions of years since human and chimp ancestors parted ways, our brains have virtually tripled in size, while theirs have barely budged. Sure, some days it doesn't feel like it, but the fact Homo sapiens have relatively large brains isn'

SpaceX, the rocket company founded by the tech mogul Elon Musk, plans to launch a Spanish radar satellite atop one of its go-to rockets on Thursday morning.

Here's something you might not know: Jeff Bezos – the founder of Amazon and rocket company Blue Origin – owns a mountain. Yep, an entire mountain in Texas.

The world is far off course from its goals in cutting greenhouse gas emissions - and research published Tuesday illustrates one of the most striking implications of this.

What makes us human? A lot of people would argue it is the ability of our species to engage in complex behaviour such as using language, creating art and being moral. But when and how did we first become "human" in this sense?

For the past several years, Santlal Pal had been watching a tumor emerge from his skull.

The Biblical figure Isaiah who prophesied the coming of the Messiah may have been an actual real person.

Coffee causes cancer. Eggs give you high cholesterol. Lexapro is a scam.

Astronomers have come up with the most precise measurement of the Universe's expansion rate so far - and sure enough, it still appears to be accelerating.

Usually, when you're having trouble with bloating and stomach discomfort, you'd think it's probably something you ate.

They've been touted as a slightly healthier alternative to puffing on tobacco.

The history of medicine is studded with tales of self-experimentation.

The world's deadliest animal isn't a shark or even a human. Drawing from a graphic from Bill Gates' blog, we decided to rank the world's deadliest animals.