Two elk hunters who vanished in southern Colorado were killed by a lightning strike, officials confirmed this week - despite having only "slight burns" on their bodies.
The victims, named as ...
A psychotherapist has claimed that death is not the end - after surviving a horrific fall from a 60ft cliff.
Erica Tait, from New Jersey, was just 22 when she plummeted ...
Prunes and All-Bran might once have been the butt of jokes about old age, but now they’re flying off the shelves - thanks to a Gen Z health craze called ...
Some Generation Z house-hunters want to live near pubs, cafes and bakeries.
According to research by real estate firm Purplebricks, over a third (36 per cent) of those born between 1997 ...
A boy eats his bedroom walls.
Leigh Murphy, 29, has to keep an eye on her six-year-old son Steven - who she has with her 28-year-old husband Steven - so that ...
Music can help heart patients recover faster, new research shows.
A study conducted by the University of Guanajuato in Mexico found that cardiac patients in intensive care who listened to 45 ...
A team of Japanese researchers won an Ig Nobel Prize for spray-painting cows with zebra stripes to reduce fly bites.
Led by Tomoki Kojima, the group taped Japanese beef cows before ...
A much-loved snow leopard described as “truly special” has died at Thrigby Hall Wildlife Gardens.
The 13-year-old female, named Nima, passed away after developing an infection despite initially responding to treatment ...
Austrian daredevil Josef Tödtling became the first person to claim the Guinness World Records title for the fastest 100 m car pull in full body burn.
He completed the blazing feat ...
A British endurance star has smashed a Guinness World Record by running a marathon at an altitude so high most people can barely stand up.
On Tuesday 16 September, athlete and ...
Millions of Brits could be left staring at blank screens in just five years’ time — because the satellites powering Sky and Freesat will soon expire.
A 2030 deadline looms for ...
A man donning scuba gear and a wetsuit allegedly swam up to a Walt Disney World Resort restaurant and made off with up to $20,000 in cash.
The man found a ...
Glasses may soon be obsolete — after scientists revealed that a simple course of eye drops can restore clear near vision.
Hundreds of millions of people worldwide suffer from presbyopia — ...
Penguins do not all mate for life — some have affairs, and others even get "divorced", according to a leading expert.
The black-and-white Antarctic waddlers are often thought of as models ...
Laughing easily may be the biggest clue you’re young at heart, a new poll of Brits has revealed.
A study of 2,000 adults commissioned by cheese-snack brand Cheestrings found that the ...
Drinking sparkling water can be disastrous for a person's teeth.
The fizzy beverage has increased in popularity of late but dental experts fear that its acidic nature contributes to the erosion ...
A basic test could detect signs of Alzheimer's disease years before diagnosis.
Fastball, a tool that scans the brainwaves of a patient, has shown for the first time that such a ...
A "golden dose" of Wegovy could help patients lose a fifth of their body weight.
A weekly injection of the weight-loss jab containing semaglutide - which is also the primary ingredient ...
Those who struggle to get to sleep are at a heightened risk of dementia.
Experts have long linked both the quality and amount of rest to the memory-depriving illness and US ...
Heart attacks could be infectious.
Scientists in Finland and the UK have discovered remarkable evidence that indicates that heart attacks are caused by an infectious process rather than high cholesterol or ...
Housework has lots of health benefits.
Experts have discovered that spending just half an hour twice a week doing chores such as hoovering can help people lower their blood pressure and ...
Climate change could be contributing to obesity.
New research has claimed that people are more likely to pile on the pounds during warmer weather as they gorge on ice cream and ...
Mosquitoes like to bite people who drink beer.
Scientists at Radboud University in the Netherlands asked 500 people at a music festival to be exposed to thousands of female mosquitoes.
Everybody involved ...
Rocks on Mars are the biggest indicator yet of life on the Red Planet.
The unusual mudstones were found in a dusty riverbed by NASA's Perseverance Rover and are dotted with ...
