People who imagine their self to reside in their head or their heart have different approaches to life. Columnist David ...

Partially burnt trees still standing after a wildfire are typically felled and burned, but a US start-up claims burying them ...

The creaky noise known as vocal fry that people generally associate with young women – and some find irritating – is actually ...

Muscle stem cells, which are crucial for building new muscle, don’t work as well as we get older, but giving them an ...

After a career spent grappling with the neural underpinnings of autism, Uta Frith is unwavering in her controversial call to ...

From the subtle differences between memory lapses and brain disease to the lifestyle changes that can lower your risk, Dr Tim Beanland at Alzheimer’s Society helps you navigate the facts about dementi ...

A 135-year-old chemistry law is getting a quantum makeover. An experiment with a single quantum bit, or a qubit, has uncovered that the Arrhenius equation, which describes how reaction rates relate to ...

IN JULY 1962, Michel Siffre took off his watch and descended into the abyss of Scarasson in the French Alps. There, in a cave 130 metres below the surface, he set up camp next to a glacier. With a ...

A study of soils around the Arctic and boreal forests has found that some wildfires are releasing carbon stored over ...

Rowan Hooper met ecologist Suzanne Simard under an oak tree in Kew Gardens, London, to talk about her new book, criticism of ...

Genetically altered bacteria can synthesise gadusol, a naturally occurring compound found in zebrafish eggs that could be ...

Government departments and other public bodies in the UK must consider requests to release information about AI-produced ...