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If you're reading this there's a good chance that you, like me, are a millennial.

Fueled by abnormally warm Caribbean waters, Hurricane Melissa exploded into a Category 5 cyclone while moving at little more than a strolling pace - a dangerous mix that could amplify its impacts through relentless rain, storm surge, and wind.

Every few months, a new "miracle cure" for cancer trends on social media.

Mysterious lights and reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) in the 1940s and 1950s appear to be somehow linked to nuclear testing, scientists have discovered.

There's still so much we don't know about Alzheimer's disease, but the link between poor sleep and worsening disease is one that researchers are exploring with gusto.

Get ready for a new era of miniature displays.

In the run up to the launch of the latest series of The Kardashians, her new legal drama All's Fair and the celebrations for her 45th birthday, Kim Kardashian made a very different kind of headline.

A computer that relies on fungal mycelium to store information could one day be a low-cost alternative to the current generation of memory hardware.

Scientists have found blood protein signals that may flag multiple sclerosis up to seven years before symptoms begin.

Experts have been puzzled by recently discovered fossils from the hand of an extinct human relative, Paranthropus boisei.