An Australian academic claims to have found evidence to suggest that the wife of Johann Sebastian Bach wrote several of the German composer's acclaimed pieces.

Introducing or expanding screening programs for just four types of cancer and changing individuals' habits could halve Australia's overall toll of lives lost or impaired by the disease.

We had no idea whales were such flirts. Or perhaps they're just curious. Either way, they've got us wrapped around their outsized fins.

Africa needs early warning systems to deal with the increased threat of disease spreading from wild animals to humans, which will be further fuelled by climate change, according to health experts speaking at the International Union for Conservation of Nat

Beijing will ban half of its 3.4 million cars from the roads during periods of very heavy pollution, a state news report said Friday.

We know our siblings and in-laws have personalities -- sometimes to a fault. But science recently has revealed that such individual differences are widespread in the animal kingdom, even reaching to spiders, birds, mice, squid, rats and pigs.

An Atlantic blacktip shark named Tidbit showed no signs of being pregnant, and she hadn't even mated. So scientists were surprised during an autopsy of the now deceased shark to find she had been carrying a baby.

Drinking red wine, but not white wine, may reduce lung cancer risk, especially among current and ex-smokers, new research indicates.

Hundreds of millions of people worldwide are already affected by mental problems such as depression and bi-polar disorders and the current market meltdown could exacerbate feelings of despair among people vulnerable to such illnesses.

Cloned animals and their offspring should not be farmed for food according to the overwhelming majority of consumers, an EU study has revealed.