Tracey Rice, a University of Chichester staff member, tackles her fear of open water on Channel 4’s Fear Clinic. Watch her ...

This article was originally published on mentalfloss.com as Can You Guess the Animal Phobia?.

Strictly Come Dancing judge Shirley Ballas has revealed her phobia is “untidy spaces” ahead of starring in Netflix series Celebrity Bear Hunt. Ballas, 64, is among the line-up of 12 famous faces flown ...

Eli Lilly's Ozempic-rivaling weight-loss pill orforglipron could be available in early 2026. Its retatrutide may be as ...

Johns Hopkins University reached a settlement Tuesday with the Department of Education over complaints of antisemitism and Islamophobia on its campus. The school has agreed to take actions to ...

Liz Baxter, careers advisor at the college, said young people "simply don't have the confidence" to use the telephone in a formal manner, which was unfortunate as phone interviews were widely used ...

SINGAPORE – The bird, barely the size of a human palm, struggled in the mesh net hanging between two wooden poles on Pulau Ubin, the biodiversity haven located off Singapore’s eastern coast.

The idea of life continuing on Earth without humans has a way of catching our attention. Our species has spread across land and sea, altering the planet in countless ways. Still, Earth’s history shows ...

A new human species, Homo juluensis, has been proposed based on fossils from eastern Asia, dating back 300,000 to 50,000 years ago, possibly including the Denisovans. This research uses a novel method ...

But scientists have long assumed that bacteria can’t survive in the human brain. The powerful blood-brain barrier, the thinking goes, keeps the organ mostly free from outside invaders.

"If I can help raise awareness of the phobia then that can only be a good thing as I know lots of people suffer from it." You can visit the GoFundMe page here.

Our ancient primate ancestors gave birth to twins. Modern humans overwhelmingly birth just a single child — a rather large child with an even larger head. Human brain and body size is certainly ...