The Beatles' song Yesterday was written in what psychologists refer to as the "hypnagogic state". This is the twilight zone between sleep and wakefulness, when we drowsily linger in a semi-conscious ...

The regular consumption of eight energy drinks a day may have contributed to a mild stroke in a middle-aged man in the UK.

You should also be able to get a good show by watching the sky on the nights either side of the peak – clear skies pending.

Dick Van Dyke, the legendary American actor and comedian who starred in classics such as Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang ...

You've probably experienced it – your alarm is set for 6:30am, yet somehow your eyes snap open a few minutes before it goes ...

In a new study soon to be published in Geophysical Research Letters, I present evidence for hundreds of these quakes in ...

When archaeologists unearthed small cat bones in China dating back some 5,400 years, they figured cats had been hanging out in early Chinese farming settlements since the Neolithic Period.

Thousands of meters underground, in the chthonic depths of Earth's crust, scientists have at long last caught solar neutrinos in the act of transforming carbon-13 into nitrogen-13.

The new guidelines also emphasize the fact that diet can have a major impact on blood pressure. They recommend that all ...

Earth's climate has swung between ice ages and warmer periods for millions of years, driven by subtle changes in our planet's ...

Scientists are hard at work trying to assess the scale of our microplastic pollution problem and the likely health impacts.

More than half of the world's pet cats are overweight, experts estimate, and soon, these chubby felines may be treated with a ...