South American mummies have become known for their impressive tattoos, but an analysis has found the design inked into the ...

A gently lobbed baseball is easy to see. The same ball, however, can seem to vanish from the hand of a skilled pitcher, ...

It was big news years ago when Mars orbiters found streaks of what appeared to be water running down Martian cliffs and ...

Yellow fever is a dangerous mosquito-borne virus that, for hundreds of years, has caused sporadic, deadly outbreaks in the ...

Rising seas will severely test humanity's resilience in the second half of the 21st century and beyond, even if nations defy ...

Being pregnant in the Viking Age was surely no picnic, but this experience has been largely ignored, in part because there ...

A 115-year-old Surrey woman named Ethel Caterham has officially been handed the title of the oldest living human alive.

Taurine is an amino acid occurring naturally in the body, and found in energy drinks as well as foods like fish and meat – ...

Gout is often associated with drinking too much or not eating healthily enough, but research suggests genetics play more of a ...