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July 2025 offers a fine chance to check Mercury off of your skywatcher's life list.

Weird dreams and vivid nightmares following late-night consumption of cheese products are surprisingly common complaints, but scientific evidence linking the two has been lacking.

The world's first commercial hybrid of silicon circuitry and human brain cells will soon be available for rent.

Popular weight-loss drugs like Ozempic and Zepbound have revolutionized how we tackle obesity.

For the very first time, scientists have sequenced DNA from the entire genome of an individual who lived in ancient Egypt up to 4,800 years ago - right when the first pyramids were being built.

Scopolamine, more chillingly known as "devil's breath," is a drug with a dual identity.

Simply using your food packaging in the manner it's supposed to be used is enough to contaminate your comestibles with a sprinkling of microplastics.

Some 252 million years ago, almost all life on Earth disappeared.

Update: NASA has confirmed the object is an interstellar comet and says it has been officially named 3I/ATLAS.

Cats sleep between 12 and 16 hours a day, and a new study suggests that most of them prefer to catch these Z's while lying on their left side.