For the past 6,500 years, the global has largely been on a cooling trend -- until humans started burning coal.

At the end of the last Ice Age, the Australian coastline was 160 kilometers farther offshore than it is today.

Something to watch out for this upcoming Independence Day.

Because topical CBD interacts with the body differently from products taken orally, effects could vary wildly.

The star may have directly collapsed as a black hole, without going supernova -- which is almost unprecedented.

Temperatures exceeding 40°C may be reached somewhere in the UK every 3.5 to 15 years by the end of the...

Besides a huge asteroid impact, dinosaurs also had to deal with global volcanic eruptions -- but the latter may have...

Researchers found that a major neural highway originating in the spinal cord may be the driving force behind muscle growth.

There are more than 500,000 people who use American Sign Language in the US alone.

The flare was equivalent to the light from a trillion suns.

The novel testing kit would work with only a saliva sample.

The fossils were found in 1973 encased in hard clay but they've been only recently described.

You can't 'predict' crime without being racially biased because 'criminality' itself is racially biased, experts warn.

High doses of ketamine caused some sheep to enter the 'k-hole', a near-death experience-like state. Their brain activity tells a...

It could be useful for generating energy at the atomic scale or studying quantum effects.

About 54% of polled workers say they would prefer to continue working remotely full time and 75% said they would...

Researchers warn that the coronavirus may cause the onset of diabetes in some patients.

Masks reduce the intake of oxygen and increase the intake of carbon dioxide.

Instead of recognizing digits like "8" or "2", the patient sees a scrambled mess. His vision is otherwise perfect.

It's like a painless Band-Aid for internal wounds.

Although Pluto orbits the sun at an average distance of 3.7 billion miles (5.9 billion kilometers), some studies claim that...

Cellular respiration allows cells to harvest ATP from glucose. It has three steps called glycolysis, the Krebs cycle, and the...

You won't explode or boil to death -- not before other more immediate threats kill you.

You might have heard that inflation is related to the price of goods and services, but why does it occur...

A fourth color cone type in the hummingbird's eyes allows the birds to see in extra colors tinted in ultraviolet.

Many patients are at risk of dying from bacterial infections acquired in the hospital rather than of the virus itself.

The hybrid system forms connections that mimic how learning occurs in the brain.

Now, that's something you don't see every day.

The research suggests that someday it may be possible to induce a suspended animation state in humans.

Newly identified liquid crystals can align their molecules in the same direction when an electric field is applied.

The tiny bone sculpture is the earliest 3D work of art in East Asia.

The risk of a second wave is huge, which is why policy makers need to act with great caution going...

AIs that write news are great with numbers, but fail terribly with people. There might hope for us jurnalists after...

Life ticks at a different rate for every individual, and a new device can now measure biological age with ease.

Levels of certain proteins in the blood can be used to diagnose COVID-19 disease progression.

Humidity seems to play an important role in COVID-19 transmission.

Temperature is a measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles in an object.

A new study suggests that it's not really possible to separate the world from how it truly is and how...

Yet more than 50% said they are very confident they know how to clean and disinfect their homes safely.

A novel simulation mimicked the conditions of early Earth, finding that meteorites could have seeded the essential building blocks for...

Observations suggest that the exoplanet and its parent star are strikingly similar to Earth and the Sun.

The artificial blood cells can carry different payloads such as cancer therapies.

A tiny Martian moon suggests Mars may have had planetary rings.

Looming fears over contracting disease and economic uncertainty is causing major psychological suffering among American adults.

Sorry -- no invisible humans any time soon, but the applications can be intriguing.

There a four coronaviruses known to cause common colds, but can they offer any immunity against SARS-CoV-2?

Just 3% of the world's population has antibodies for COVID-19 -- woefully short of at least 60% required for herd...

Sweeping the dirt under the rug won't cut it anymore. Here's what research says about what works and what doesn't...

The salty future of energy storage might be upon us.

"Don't worry, hooman. Fluffy come rescue."