As sellers on the dark web advertise drug-infused e-liquids, researchers investigate the trend for vaping substances like heroin and methamphetamine A project is kicking off in the Sierra Nevada ...

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

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

Shayan Majidy is a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University in the group of Misha Lukin. His research is on quantum ...

Seismic surveys and sediment cores suggest that dozens of deep pockmarks on the sea floor were created when Arctic methane ...

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 ...

Asymmetric action is common in animals. For example, a squirrel eating seeds from a pine cone either puts its right paw on ...

This is one of those where infinity might have to be invoked, because frozen peas require zero boiling time.

The answer depends on whether we’re talking about we humans, all life or industrialised society, says one reader ...

If we think first of pure spectral colours consisting of a single wavelength of light, then there’s a simple, obvious answer: ...

A Neanderthal tooth shows clear signs of human intervention to treat bacterial decay, showing that the earliest dentistry ...

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