Plastic pollution is a "grave, growing and under-recognised danger" to health that is costing the world at least $1.5 trillion a year, experts warned in a report on Monday.

If you're keen to live as long a life as possible on the planet, there are a variety of strategies you can try: maintain your social ties, drink coffee, stay active, don't smoke, get enough sleep, and ...

Earth's skies are about to be graced by a full Moon, plump and shining in the sky, swimming across a lake of stars like a giant sturgeon. Okay, maybe not, but the full Moon that will rise on Friday 8 ...

An asteroid is a relatively small chunk of rocky minerals that orbits the Sun, often described as a minor planet.

Mars is the fourth planet that orbits the Sun in our Solar System. Circling at an average distance of approximately 229 million kilometres (around 142 million miles) from the Sun, it sits between the ...

Climate change is a significant, long-term shift in weather patterns that can refer to one place or the planet as a whole.

With the dawn of legal cannabis in some US states, the number of Americans smoking, ingesting or applying the psychotropic drug has more than doubled in the last decade – and yet we are still lacking ...

Squishy cephalopods never cease to amaze with their clever features, including brained arms, color-shifting camouflage, escape artistry, and puzzle-solving skills. New analyses of squid, octopus, and ...

The 'go-to' way many clinicians measure healthy weight may be deeply flawed, according to new research. A population study from the University of Florida (UF) has found that BMI, or body mass index, ...

Sometimes referred to as the 'fifth state of matter', a Bose-Einstein Condensate is a state of matter created when particles, called bosons, are cooled to near absolute zero (-273.15 degrees Celsius, ...

Venus is the second planet orbiting our Sun in the Solar System. Circling at an average distance of approximately 108 million kilometres (around 67 million miles) from the Sun, it sits between the ...

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.