The Chandra X-ray telescope and other observatories are being used to study stars that could potentially harbor habitable ...

Something unexpected has come to life in the great darkness of space. In a galaxy 300 million light-years away from Earth, a ...

A large-scale study of CT scans performed in the United States has estimated that the widely used medical technology could ...

Researchers from UC San Francisco have announced a study that found computed tomography, or CT scans, may account for as much ...

Scans of 18 ancient papyri that were buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius look ‘very promising’, and there are plans to ...

BMI misclassifies athletic bodies. New research calls for revised BMI cut-offs to better assess young male athletes’ health ...

Aortic dissection is a life-threatening medical condition in which a tear occurs in the major artery (aorta) that carries ...

Did you go too hard at pickleball, or is your workday posture to blame? There are several culprits behind common aches and ...

A BLOOD test that can detect cancer before symptoms develop will be offered as part of an NHS trial, health officials have ...

In the grand puzzle of the cosmos, one question continues to defy easy answers: how fast is the universe expanding?

Pope Francis, the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church, died on Monday (Apr 21) at the age of 88 ...

Vomiting is only one of the signs seen with liver disease. (It is often yellow, though, since the white foam is mixed with a ...