The disruption of your gut microbiome is a major consequence, and possible cause, of ageing. Columnist Graham Lawton looks ...

An extremely unusual tectonic movement took place 15 minutes after the Tohoku earthquake in 2011, causing almost the whole of ...

Beautifully written, this guide to distinguishing between truth, misinformation and lies, first published in 1995, remains an ...

As the sun expands over the coming billions of years, Earth will become inhospitable to any life more complex than a microbe ...

We already know the vaccine against human papillomavirus, or HPV, greatly reduces infections and cases of cervical cancer, ...

A planet-warming El Niño climate phase has begun, but while the phenomenon can influence Europe's weather through ...

Palaeontologists have found new evidence that the early ancestors of amphibians, reptiles and mammals did not have a larval ...

A study of 140,000 people suggests that a broadening of the diagnostic criteria for autism and ADHD explains the sharp rise ...

By the time we’re born, our brains have all the hardware in place to form thoughts, and possibly even some conscious ...

DNA evidence shows that plague bacteria devastated a community in Siberia more than 5000 years ago, challenging the idea that ...

Putting brain cells into a hibernation-like state via drugs that cool down core body temperature may help to preserve them ...

Bird-mounted headsets and backpacks have revealed the surprising things pigeons do with their eyes when on the wing ...