Weightlifting shoes might be your best bet when doing squats. But if you mainly stick to deadlifts, flat shoes may slightly boost your performance. That is if your goal is to lift as much weight as ...

A comet whizzing through the Solar System has astonished scientists by doing something they had never seen before.

A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass ...

Deep sleep could forestall the declines in brain health that can eventually lead to Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia.

Researchers have identified a period of sluggish magnetic field flipping for planet Earth, some 40 million years ago – raising big questions about how long these reversals actually take, and how we ...

According to a pre-proof paper, hair samples from patients with Parkinson's disease showed significantly lower levels of iron and copper, along with higher levels of manganese and arsenic. The authors ...

But new research has found the strongest candidate yet. The first author is Dayi (David) Li, a post-doctoral fellow in ...

Scientists at Microsoft Research in the United States have demonstrated a system called Silica for writing and reading information in ordinary pieces of glass, which can store two million books' worth ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) – NASA took another crack at fueling its giant Moon rocket Thursday after leaks halted the initial ...

Venting, however, often goes beyond reflection into rumination. The study suggests that many people also try to exorcise ...

A new Spinosaurus species has been unearthed from the Saharan desert, and its skull bears a magnificent crest never seen ...

Scientists say they have drilled deeper than ever beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, peering back millions of years to ...