Artificial sweeteners were introduced to offer a healthier alternative to sugar – but as a new study highlights, these substitutes bring their own health risks with them.

We know that exercise has numerous health benefits, but does it matter how much you spread it out? Even only working out on the weekends may still reduce some people's risk of early death, according ...

Stem cells are a special type of cell found in multicellular organisms, such as plants and animals, which are yet to develop traits that distinguish specific tissues from one another.

In a national park a four-hour drive north of Sydney in Australia, a fire is smoldering out of control – and it's been doing so for at least 6,000 years.

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are super intense, millisecond-long bursts of radio waves produced by unidentified sources in the distant cosmos. Their discovery in 2007 by American astronomer Duncan Lorimer ...

Consciousness is what allows you to think, remember, and feel things. The term can refer to someone's actual experience of the world - their thoughts, sensations, and decision making - as well as the ...

The laws of thermodynamics are three principles describing the way energy moves within a system and is transferred between groups of objects.

It's official: after some careful data analysis, the Tonga volcano eruption of 2022 has been confirmed as the largest explosive eruption of the 21st century, and on par with the biggest eruptions ever ...

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of mostly land-based animals that are related to today's reptiles and birds. In fact, while dinosaurs are commonly seen as extinct and known only by their fossils, ...

An antibody is a class of protein called an immunoglobulin, which is made by specialised white blood cells to identify and neutralise material foreign to an immune system.

Sailing through the smooth waters of vacuum, a photon of light moves at around 300 thousand kilometers (186 thousand miles) a second.

Clinical trials are studies designed to test treatments and diagnostic tools on volunteers prior to use on patients. For medical practitioners to ethically prescribe a drug, device, therapy, or test, ...