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Roland Crooke took a loan to pay for private treatment after being told to lose weight for hip surgery

There was no major incident, just confusion, and the scale of the incident was overstated, a report finds.

Beau Austin has now been given a bravery award for his quick thinking.

Experts have invented a tiny sensor that can be placed onto bees, making them a small drone that can oversee farm conditions for a long period.

Blogger Arooj Aftab explains why wearing oversized clothes is more than just a fashion statement for her.

NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft has become the second probe to enter interstellar space, as confirmed by data returned by several of the science instruments on board the spacecraft.

SEATTLE -- A team of engineers at the University of Washington have found a new way to collect data using bumblebees. UW's School of Computer Science & Engineering is the first to create a sensing system - complete with wireless communication and ...

Ruba and Saqib both carry a gene for I-cell disorder, which means their children have a one-in-four chance of dying in early childhood.

The families of three people with learning difficulties tell the BBC all their teeth were taken out.

The University of Washington research team believes the sensors will help collect important farming data and study bee behavior. By Travis Loose, Patch Staff | Dec 13, 2018 5:25 pm ET.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is currently traveling closer to the sun than any other spacecraft before it. The probe is recording data on the star to help scientists learn more about the star and its volatile nature.

It was an event to commemorate Apollo 8's breakthrough half a century ago—the first time humans had escaped the Earth's gravitational pull to orbit the moon, by far the furthest travel from the planet.

NASA's newly arrived Mars lander has been spotted by one its orbiting cousins. The space agency's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter used its supersharp High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera (HiRISE) to photograph the InSight lander, as well ...

For those hoping to get a glimpse of the Geminid meteor shower, the weather across the United States will either be very good, with clear skies and excellent viewing prospects, or very bad, with cloud-filled skies and perhaps some rain or wintry ...

A comet is set to pass close to Earth this weekend, providing a treat for skywatchers - and for astronomers hoping to learn more about the building blocks of the early solar system.

Invest in nonprofit journalism today. Donate now and every gift will be matched through 12/31. The Arctic is in the throes of what sea-ice scientist Peter Wadhams called a “death spiral.

The speed and distance at which planets orbit their respective blazing stars can determine each planet's fate—whether the planet remains a longstanding part of its solar system or evaporates into the universe's dark graveyard more quickly.

Check the environmental impact of what you eat and drink.

The 2018 eruption of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano, which oozed fresh lava for over three months, was its biggest in the past 200 years.

Scientists at the Francis Crick Institute have discovered a set of simple rules that determine the precision of CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing in human cells.