Why we have body parts we don’t need is simple. According to the Harvard Health website, they were most likely necessary at ...

Why would evolution produce an organism that must spend 150 minutes a week doing things like running on a treadmill to ...

The revised definition, published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology 1 on 14 January, focuses on how excess body fat, a ...

Whether you prefer cooking with beef tallow or olive oil, dietitians say picking the healthiest cooking oil matters less than ...

The Bible's lex talionis—"Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot" (Exodus 21:24–27)—has captured the ...

The system developed by Professor Julius Lucks that monitors contaminants in drinking water is now sensitive enough to detect tiny nucleic acids.

Our gut is a bustling hub of activity, home to trillions of microbes that work together with our bodies to keep us healthy. A ...

Researchers have described how the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus genetically adapts to humans, including mutations that ...

The world’s largest study of proteins circulating the human body will begin in the UK this month, with the aim of pinpointing ...

Researchers have discovered a way to control human body temperature, mimicking the hibernation process of animals like bears.

In a pioneering study at the University of Arizona, researchers discovered that some patients with artificial hearts show ...

Regular ScienceAlert readers will likely know how pervasive microplastics are – getting into human tissue, ancient rock, and ...