Hundreds of years ago, it was common for married couples among the European upper classes to have separate bedrooms.

Despite their reputation as 'killer' whales, orcas are known to lend a helping fin by sharing their food with humans.

"How often do you poop?" might sound like a very personal question, but your answer could reveal quite a lot about your ...

Slow-motion earthquakes, as you might guess from the name, involve the release of pent-up geological energy over the course of days or weeks rather than minutes – and scientists have now recorded some ...

A planet that is snuggled up closely with its host star may be igniting colossal flares that strip it of its own mass.

An active ingredient in cough medicines since 1979 has shown promise as a treatment for neuropsychiatric symptoms in ...

How did Earth, alone among the Solar System's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

New research on Monday contradicted the commonly held idea that males dominate females among primates, revealing far more ...

Sure, BMI is simple and easy to compute, but it comes with some serious limitations. People who are muscular, for instance, can sometimes be deemed overweight or obese. And on the flip side, those who ...

Imagine watching your favourite nature documentary.In our recent study, we explored this strange behaviour in sharks, rays and their relatives. In this group, tonic immobility is triggered when the ...

The discovery was made by a team of scientists led by Guopeng Kuang from the Yunnan Institute of Endemic Disease Control and Prevention and Tian Yang from Dali University in China, who used genetic ...

However, the odds that it will crash into the Moon have risen to 4.3 percent, according to data from the James Webb space telescope in May. The range of possible locations – represented in yellow – of ...