The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just approved an injectable drug to remove unwanted double chin fat, known as Kybella, without the need for any extensive surgeries or downtime.
Researchers at the Imperial College London have discovered that the risk of obesity can be detected via urine samples. The study is published in the journal Science Translational Medicine.
We burn them. We embalm them. We bury them. We even eat them. As long as humans have walked the Earth, they've disposed of their dead in one way or another, some evolving into funerary practices that continue to range from typical to bizarre.
Dead zones may be coming to the coast. A team of researchers have discovered areas with extremely low levels of oxygen in the tropical North Atlantic, only a few hundred kilometers off the coast of West Africa.
Genetic testing of the Iñupiat people currently living in Alaska's North Slope is filling in the blanks on questions about migration patterns.
A new study may reveal an unprecedented surge in biodiversity that occurred 20 million years ago.
It's a huge step forward for scientific photography. Researchers have developed a new high-speed camera that can record events at a rate of more than 1-trillion-frames-per second.
The queen bee in any colony has an important job: breeding. But how does this insect avoid inbreeding in her colony?
A new telescope has captured the first-ever detailed view of the interior structure of umbrae, the dark patches in the center of sunspots.
A new fossil is revealing a bit more about the family tree of the sperm whale, a species made famous by the novel, Moby Dick.
Space weather can impact conditions not only in space, but also on Earth. Now, a new telescope has captured the first high-resolution images of the flaring magnetic structure, known as solar flux ropes, at their point of origin.
There may be a link between abrupt temperature changes in Greenland and Antarctica during the last ice age.
