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Research on the microbes living in our digestive tract has triggered a 'revolution' in nutritional science.

Abandoned shopping carts - pushed into hedges, dumped in rivers, or stranded on city streets - have become symbols of pollution and waste, and a new study shows just how bad for our planet they actually are.

The famous asteroid, Ryugu, is drip-feeding scientists crucial information about its watery past.

Imagine a game show where the host asks the contestant to randomly pick one option out of three: A, B or C.

Bacteria normally found in the mouth could play a direct role in triggering a heart attack, a new study has found.

Attempts at communicating what generative artificial intelligence (AI) is and what it does have produced a range of metaphors and analogies.

It's a quiet morning.

While domestic animals gradually became larger over the last 1,000 years, wild animal body sizes shrank.

Extremophiles are a favorite tool of astrobiologists.

A new study shows that ultra-processed foods (UPFs) can harm men's health in a trio of notable ways: through weight gain, through the disruption of natural hormones, and through a reduction in sperm quality.