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.

Restricting a strange class of particles known as anyons to one dimension could force them into adopting one of two new forms ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers have made a significant step forward in understanding how gut bacteria, and specifically a newly discovered virus ...

Go outside about an hour after sunset and venture away from tall buildings and trees that will block the view. Look to the western sky and spot Mercury, Venus and Saturn close to the horizon. Jupiter ...

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 ...