Sitting down is killing you, in more than one way.

Rightfully touted for its many health benefits as an antioxidant, green tea doesn't really play well with iron.

A meta-analysis of 29 previous studies has confirmed what many researchers were already suspecting: depression affects the entire body.

Schools in Estonia's capital Tallinn are piloting a new program, gradually moving to PC workstations running on free and open...

It's official - New Zealanders can now tie the knot in spaghetti. The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is...

President Obama will mark the start of a year-long precision medicine trial with a summit at the White House. 170 people...

Doctors are seeing a massive rise in the demands for the so-called vaginal seeding procedure, despite no evidence that this...

They may not look like much, but coffee pods are a big problem.

While there is a full scientific consensus that homeopathy is a pseudoscience many people still believe in it.

The evidence is pilling up that fish grown in hatcheries are very different from those in the wild. A new study...

Almost 50% of all new wind turbines in 2015 were built in China. Considering that, it's no surprise that the country has become...

A few days ago, the health minister in Colombia warned that the country is extremely vulnerable to the Zika virus...

Get it together, world - the top 10 greenest countries in the world are all European! The greenest countries The...

An innovative type of concrete has the potential to save lives and millions off of taxpayers' money.

The mosquito-borne Zika virus seems to have spread from Brazil to Colombia, as more than 13,500 people are already infected.

The 62 richest people in the world are worth as much as the poorest 3.5 billion people in the world.

Denmark's wind turbines set a spectacular world record as they alone generated over 42 percent of domestic electricity use in...

The world's largest food and water producer will be sued for allegations that it used child slaves to harvest cocoa...

The two largest cities in Italy have taken drastic measures as pollution levels continue to rise and smog builds up.

As China's cities struggle with smog more and more, one man has started an interesting project to raise awareness: he...

There's a good chance that what you know about Crime Scene Investigation comes from movie - but there are actually...

Improvements in aircraft design, air traffic management and changes to airline operations could effectively slash US airline emissions by as...

Unfortunately, stories of animals becoming endangered are way more common than the reverse, but perhaps this makes it even more...

When you're listening to music, it's not just your ears that are reacting to it, your eyes feel it too.

The collapse of two dams at a Brazilian mine spells an absolute catastrophe, with effects that could haunt Brazil for...

It's still not clear why this happened, but one of the most likely explanations is a rare phenomenon, a "contagious"...

A single energy drink can alter your health significantly, and consuming energy drinks regularly can be absolutely devastating.

As anyone who's visited a big city knows, few things are more annoying than being stuck behind meandering tourists when...

The Scottish government announced that it approved the construction of UK's first, and the world's largest floating offshore wind farm.

It was exciting at first when Russia announced that six female astronauts would live in a spacecraft in Moscow for...

Sprocket the cat has been fitted with an improvised 3D printed leg brace which has a good chance of saving his...

When the Scottish government introduced a 5 pence tax for plastic bags, they were expecting a significant reduction, but even...

A team of students in Canada invented a cheap, portable cooling device that doesn't need any electricity.

Covering your body up with sunscreen may protect you against the Sun, but it's also threatening the world's coral reefs,...

The District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority recently unveiled a $470 million waste-to-energy system that converts solid sludge (we...

By now, it's almost a statistical certainty: in January 2016, we will say that 2015 was the warmest year on...

Sure, we've all heard of Egypt's pyramids, but have you heard of Sudan's pyramids? Well, you really should have -...

Drivers and passengers who light one up while kids are in the car now face fines in England in Wales,...

A new study conducted on medical consumption of cannabis came up with some good news, and some bad news: for...

California is currently experiencing its worst drought in over a millennium. Trillions of gallons of underground waters were lost in...

New research suggests that simply fidgeting around could counter some of the effects of sitting down for too long.

Americans are sending much more trash to landfills than federal agencies estimated - twice as much, according to a new...

Usually, we have to use all sorts of disinfectants, soaps and detergents to scrub away smudge, be it sticky, oozy...

Eight trillion microbeads are polluting the US waters every day. As the plastic beads are very small, they breach through...

After years of analyzing and reclassifying some 2.3 million species, a group of international researchers from eleven institutions were able...

The Netherlands has joined the list of European countries that have banned wild animals from their circuses. The Netherlands will...

Bee numbers have been dropping at alarming rates, and the growing consensus seem to be that only limiting pesticide use...

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who religiously make their bed every day in cleanliness and...

A French court upheld on Thursday a 2012 ruling in which Monsanto was found guilty of chemical poisoning of a...

Did you notice something strange about this July? It was hot! Sure, July is supposed to be hot (at least...