For most people, cold weather is an inconvenience, requiring an extra layer of clothing or the thermostat to be turned up.

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After a decade of work, researchers are closer than ever to a key breakthrough in kidney transplants: being able to transfer ...

Humanity has worked itself into a position where we can detect a single high-energy particle from space and wonder where in ...

Astronomers have announced the discovery of what appears to be an "ice cold Earth," a chilly but potentially habitable rocky world similar to our own located less than 150 light-years away.

A newly discovered comet has astronomers excited, with the potential to be a spectacular sight in early April.

In geology terms, a clast is just a word for a small rock fragment stuck inside a bigger rock. Finding clasts isn't ...

Baby long-necked dinosaurs might have been the fast food of the Jurassic Period. A detailed food web of the time, ...

Autism has historically been viewed as a condition that affects men and boys more frequently than women and girls.

It's easy to feel powerless against cancer, but a new study has identified several ways that we can reduce the odds of it ...

While we have sent probes billions of kilometers into interstellar space, humans have barely scratched the surface of our own ...

House burping' is the latest thing cluttering people's feeds: short clips of people flinging open every window and door, ...