Scent is essential to ant society: every ant within a colony wears the badge of membership in the form of smelly hydrocarbons.

The third phase of a migraine attack is the headache. This is when people typically experience a throbbing or pulsating ...

The key to heart health isn't cutting down on pasta or potatoes, new evidence suggests; it's not even a low-fat diet.

Overall, our study suggests that reducing sugary drink consumption could be a helpful way to support adolescent mental health. While numerous studies have investigated the impact reducing sugary drink ...

More than 12,000 years ago, two closely-related women – a mother and her daughter, perhaps – were buried in an eternal embrace.

New evidence suggests Breaking Bad was more accurate than we thought; a bizarre fossil bares the world's oldest butthole; the strange effects alcohol has on the brain; and much more! Will Exercise ...

The message is simple: wake earlier, perform better. But the science tells a more complicated story. For many people, a 5 am ...

The single whistler event was recorded over a crustal magnetic field, at an altitude of 349 kilometers (217 miles) on the ...

Go outside about an hour after sunset and venture away from tall buildings and trees that will block the view. Look to the ...

The brain's 'garbage disposal' system falters with age, a new study finds, with long-lived neurons offloading clumpy, old ...

A woman in the United Kingdom, who was born without a womb, has recently given birth to a healthy baby boy in a medical first ...

Schizophrenia is a serious mental health disorder that is characterized by psychosis, making it difficult for a person to ...