Scientists studying how the body responds to an extended fast noted that after 3 days, the body stopped burning sugar and ...

The military was the origin of a number of different technologies that are now common in everyday life, including this ...

Military scientists in the 1940s were shocked by the destruction of an underwater nuclear weapon to the point they canceled ...

Nuclear tests have had dramatic and devastating effects on the world, as well as some long-term ones, with radioactive ...

There's no doubt that paying attention to your weight or body mass index is important, but you're probably overlooking your ...

Fossils can give scientists a look into the past, but this one might have provided the first evidence of a rather specific ...

The body is full of vestigial organs that are seemingly 'useless,' but removing the gall bladder could have more side effects ...

ABO blood types have some relation to medical conditions, but they've also been tied to this health fad, which might not be as helpful as it's made out to be.

To discover why so many Germans participated in atrocities during WWII, a Yale scientist looked close to home, and found ...

The military contractor who discovered super glue thought his initial experiments were a sticky failure, until he came back ...

Urine isn't the most pleasant liquid, but it had its uses to the ancient Romans, who used it as a potentially unexpected ...

It's hard to argue that there's a good way to die, but there's no question that death by lethal injection might be one of the ...