When the stomach is full, how does the brain know to stop eating? Scientists long assumed the answer lies mainly with neurons ...

Your brain’s “stop eating” signal may come from an unexpected source. Researchers found that astrocytes—once thought to just support neurons—actually play a key role in controlling appetite. After a ...

Are we alone? From Trump’s push to release UFO files to new NASA missions, interest in alien life is back in the spotlight.

Imagine a creature nearly twice the size of a modern African elephant, which can weigh up to 6,000 kg. This was Elephas ...

Hollywood has driven how Americans envision little green men with big eyes and bigger heads. But fiction soon could be ...

Charlotte Tolley, a mother of three, has told of her heartbreak after her son was born severely disabled after a sonographer ...

Usually sighted around Halloween, the octopus-like residents of Rigel 7 (e.g Kang and Kodos) have five tentacles (which they ...

Charlotte Tolley, 36, is a single mum-of-three, one of whom, Lucas, five, requires intense amounts of care. The tot was born ...

Nuacht Aoir has learned – exclusively – that President Donald Trump will release the “Report of the Newcomers” later today, ...

The “alien” is actually a potato. Specifically, it is a purple tuber nicknamed Spudnik-1, grown and photographed by Pettit.

There’s a virus you may have never heard of before that is estimated to infect up to 90 percent of people and lurks quietly in your cells for life—but if it becomes activated, it will destroy your ...