The discovery of a 4,000-year-old fortified town hidden in an oasis in modern-day Saudi Arabia reveals how life at the time was slowly changing from a nomadic to an urban existence, archaeologists said on Wednesday. The remains of the town, dubbed al-Natah, were long concealed by the ...

Experts expressed enthusiasm Friday after US health regulators approved the first new form of treatment for schizophrenia in decades. The drug, called Cobenfy and developed by US pharma giant Bristol Myers Squibb, works differently from existing treatments, targeting the so-called ...

New York has been the backdrop to countless "end of the world" storylines in film and TV. But on Tuesday an actual meteor shot over the city's iconic Statue of Liberty before disintegrating high above Manhattan, NASA's Meteor Watch said in a post on Facebook. Residents flooded the ...

Earth's population will peak in the mid-2080s at around 10.3 billion people, then drop slightly to a level much lower than anticipated a decade ago, the United Nations said. The current population of 8.2 billion people will rise to that maximum over the next 60 years, then dip to 10.2 ...

The number of new prostate cancer cases around the world will more than double over the next two decades as poorer countries catch up with the aging of richer nations, according to a Lancet report published Thursday. "Our findings suggest that the number of new cases annually will rise from ...

The US Food and Drug Administration has given the green light for a popular anti-obesity drug to be used to prevent serious heart conditions for the first time, in a move likely to expand insurance coverage. Wegovy, produced by Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk, was approved "to ...

Scientists in Britain announced Thursday they had smashed a record for generating fusion energy in the final experiment using the Joint European Torus (JET) machines. Nuclear fusion is the same process that the sun uses to generate heat. Proponents believe it could one day help tackle climate ...

A deep sea exploration company has released a sonar image they say may be the remains of the plane of Amelia Earhart, the famed American aviatrix who disappeared over the Pacific Ocean in 1937. Deep Sea Vision (DSV), a South Carolina-based firm, said the image was captured after an extensive ...