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.

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

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

We spend a third of our lives asleep.At the beginning of the study (2002-12), the participants completed a range of questionnaires, including one which asked about how often they experienced bad ...

A belt of swirly, stripey rock in the northeast reaches of Canada looks like it contains some of the oldest minerals ever found on our planet's surface. A new dating analysis of minerals in the ...

The colossal black hole lurking at the center of the Milky Way galaxy is spinning almost as fast as its maximum rotation rate. That's just one thing astrophysicists have discovered after developing ...