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.

It's no secret that Siberia's permafrost is on thin ice. Conditions are varying so much that huge holes are appearing out of nowhere, and, in some places, tundra is quite literally bubbling underneath people's feet.

When CERN researchers need to test the limits of scientific research, it's not often there's a van at the centre of it all.

Lately, it feels like every day we're flooded with stories about the worst of humanity - wars, school shootings, climate change.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration, and several states are investigating an outbreak of salmonella illness linked to kratom, an unregulated herbal supplement that is sometimes used for pain, anxiet

Since its founding in 1999, Bigelow Aerospace has focused on building inflatable space modules that provide habitats in low-Earth orbit with more breathing room.

The FCC's net neutrality vote has finally been published in the Federal Register, the government's official record of all administrative actions. The moment is key, because it kicks off the next phase of the fight over the future of the Internet. H

Computer model forecasts are advertising a bout of bitter cold to sweep over Europe over the next several days, very possibly the most extreme of the winter and perhaps in several years.